The Berlin radio will set aside its English-language broadcast on Purim, March 13, to “answer the messages of our listeners of the Jewish faith” in the United States, the station announced last night. The announcer said the “special feature broadcast” had been arranged after a “Robert Jacobs of New York City” had requested the station to broadcast” an appropriate Purim Day program.”
The Jacobs message was one of the satirical radiograms sent, at Berlin’s expense, when the German radio invited collect messages commenting on its broadcasts.
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