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There are a number of organizations in New York which are privately subsidized to foster public discussions on timely subjects. The Foreign Policy Association and the Foreign Affairs Forum are two such organizations devoted to a consideration of significant international affairs. The latter is particularly airminded. More than a year ago this Forum conducted an impressive radio series on WEVD and is at present offering occasional programs over that station. Previously, WNYC and WHN carried their programs. The latest announcement comes from WBNX, where a series under the auspices of the Foreign Affairs Forum will be broadcast every Thursday evening during the month of May at 9:45 p.m. Professor William B. Guthrie and Morris Margulies are among the speakers scheduled.

The National Radio Forum conducted by the Washington “Star” over the facilities of WEAF and a nation-wide hookup will begin a new series on Tuesday, May 1, from 11:35 to Midnight, standard time. This late hour takes into account the advent of daylight saving time.

PRIME MINISTER MACDONALD TO BROADCAST

Premier Ramsay MacDonald will join with U. S. Ambassador Robert Bingham in the first broadcast of a meeting of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, to be held today from 3:30 to 4:15 over the WABC network. This program will come from the famous Chatham House in London. Ambassador Bingham will present twenty-four volumes of American State papers and a bust of Elihu Root to the Royal Institute, while Premier MacDonald will make the address of acceptance.

20,870 CLERGYMEN ON WAR, PEACE

Kirby Page, editor of “The World Tomorrow,” will announce the returns from 20,870 clergymen, based on a questionnaire on war and peace. He will then proceed to interpret these answers in the light of progress made since the last questionnaire was sent out two years ago and in the light of present conditions. This talk will first be offered to the listeners of Station WEVD on Wednesday evening, May 2, at 8:15, and the following cay, May 3, over the WEAF network at 6:30 p. m.

A WAVE OF SHORT-WAVE PROGRAMS

Everybody nowadays seems to be short-wave minded. The daily newspapers are beginning to devote quite a bit of space to those listeners who dial far off places at early and late hours of the day. An international short-wave broadcast of special interest, from England, Sweden, Rusia and Czecho-slovakia, will be heard in this country over the WEAF network from Monday, April 30 to Sunday, May 6, inclusive. One of the most interesting of these programs will bring the voice of Lotta Lehmann, famous Metropolitan Opera soprano, in a portion of “Fidelio” direct from Covent Garden, London. Others to be heard in the course of the week will be Prince George of England and a chorus of 4,000 voices from Czechoslovakia.

PRESIDENT, MRS. ROOSEVELT FACE MICROPHONE

It is not unusual for either President or Mrs. Roosevelt to make a radio appearance. However, during the first week in May they will both be heard over the facilities of the National Broadcasting Company. The President will face a WEAF microphone on Thursday, May 3, at 5:00 p.m. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be heard over a WJZ network on Tuesday, May 1, at 1:30 p. m., Eastern standard time.

WLW TO OPERATE WITH HALF MILLION WATTS

Station WLW in Cincinnati will officially begin operation on a power of 500,000 watts Wednesday, May 2, with a special dedicatory program which will be carried over a WJZ network. From New York, Washington and Chicago the networks will carry back to WLW the voices of now famous radio performers who first went on the air over this Cincinnati station.

WLW is now the most powerful broadcasting unit in the world, and in New York City it can be heard very dangerously near Station WOR on the dial.

TRAGEDY AVOIDED BY SON’S BROADCAST

Alden Edkins, NBC basso, saved his father’s life last week with a broadcast, but he didn’t know it until several days later. Edkins, Senior, who is in the shoe business, was visiting the celluloid department of a shoe factory in St. Louis. He left early to listen to his son who was singing that day over NBC networks. Within ten minutes after he left, there was an explosion in the room which killed several persons.

FAMOUS CONTRALTO STARTS NEW PROGRAM

Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who recently appeared at an anti-Nazi rally in the face of threats from Nazi sympathizers and has shown her unselfish devotion to other causes in the course of her eventful life, started a new series of programs over a WJZ network yesterday at 10:00 p. m.