Sweden and Poland

The Columbia Broadcasting System presents one world flight You are listening to a 71 year old Polish pianist, Nathoms of fear of savats playing Chopin in a room in shattered Warsaw In the heart of Poland This is one among several authentic recorded sounds of foreign places and voices of foreign people

To be heard in this fourth of a series of Columbia broadcasts a series based upon Norman Corwin's 37,000-mile global tour as first winner of the Wendell Wilkie One World Flight Award. This is Norman Cohen. Between no two cities in the world, could you find greater contrast than between Stockholm, capital of Sweden, and Warsaw, capital of Poland? One is beautiful

and intact with not a scratch of war anywhere on its surface. The other is a vast ruin, the most completely destroyed city of the war. The people of one suffered little more than shortages and the tensions of neutrality. The people of the other suffered anguish and horror beyond record and beyond belief. Stockholm stands at a junction of a lake in the Baltic

Sea. The waterways which have earned at the name of Venice of the North are sparkling in blue and reflect the montage of docks and palaces, wooded islands, bridges, banks, ships, hotels, in general an attractive mixture of the antique and modern.

In the summer, when we were there, the northern night gets no darker than an American twilight, and half the city seems to go voting or dancing or promenading in the famous Tivoli Amusement Park. It was here one night that we realized Tin Pan Alley runs right around the world.

Almost all the music heard there came from Broadway, including this familiar tune, which we recorded along with the dancing of Swedish feet. Not only Sweden's standard of entertainment, but its whole standard of living is closer to that of the United States than any other countries.