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in Canada knows that broadcasting has become a part of daily life, but few think of it as more than a cheap means of being amused or of hearing the main outlines of what is going on. It supplements the newspapers, the magazines, the cinemas, and the theatres. It is convenient, because it can be switched on and off in the home. Reception is usually easy, and most people are quite content to ring the changes on three or four stations all of which are probably situated within a radius of a hundred miles from the listener's home, either in Canada or just over the border in the United States. Some enthusiastic knob-twiddlers may go further afield, and may even search the shortwave bands, but few among them listen consistently to any of the far-away stations they pick up. It follows that the great volume of highly purposeful broadcasting directed across frontiers is quite unheeded, and the majority of people are ignorant of what is being said, some of it on their behalf, on the international air. The picture is quite different in Europe. The existence of international broadcasting, and its significance, are only too well known in countries which either during the war or since have been under foreign domination or subject to totalitarian regimes. The foreign broadcast can make for people in those countries the difference between mental life and death. In