§ Mr. Garro Jonesasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that in the Coronation Day Empire Broadcast the Afrikaans-speaking Rand miner and the Natal sugar-planter were, in fact, two well-known Capetown men who have never been connected with either mining or sugar-planting; and whether he will represent to the British Broadcasting Corporation that it would be both distasteful to the public and against the true interest of broadcasting that they should knowingly countenance deceitful broadcasts 2107W which are unredeemed by any element of humour?
§ Major TryonI have seen statements to this effect in the Press and I understand that the matter is being investigated by the South African Broadcasting Corporation by whom the arrangements for this part of the programme were made. I am assured by the British Broadcasting Corporation that they had no reason to suppose that the speakers were other than they purported to be and that it is their invariable practice not to allow impersonation except in dramatic and similar productions where there can be no possibility of misconception on the part of listeners.