HC Deb 27 July 1926 vol 198 c1928W
Mr. DUCKWORTH

asked the Postmaster-General the grounds for the decision to veto the broadcasting of a dialogue on the American debt between the editor of a leading London paper and a well-known American journalist in London?

Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON

The dialogue dealt with a controversial question in which the policy of the United States Government was keenly criticised by one speaker and defended by the other. I considered that the broadcasting of such a dialogue would indubitably be an infraction of the existing practice, and I informed the British Broadcasting Company accordingly.