Western Europe

The Columbia Broadcasting System presents One World Flight. You are listening to the hour striking in the bell tower of the town hall of Copenhagen, capital of Denmark on the Baltic Sea.

It is one of several authentic recorded sounds of foreign places and voices of foreign people to be heard in this third 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 Award.

This is Norman Cohen. On a day last June, I flew from London to Paris in a British plane. When we crossed the French coast, I entered a part of the world which was not accessible to the man in whose memory this very flight had been established.

Or at the time Wendell Wilkie circled the globe in 1942, France was occupied by the enemy. And so were the next two countries whose people are represented in the log tonight. Denmark and Norway. My stay in France was only a week, but that was long enough to see a cabinet fall, to meet a hundred assorted Frenchman, and to be reminded of how beautiful

a place is Paris. It's one of the few cities in the world which lives up to the best paintings done of it. You have to walk down its avenues and side streets and along the same to understand why Paris is not to be compared to any other city. You have to hear the musical speech of

Parisian women to believe the accent is real. For example, in the recording which follows, I find myself as much taken by the voice of Madame Pereur, as by what she says. Madame Pereur is Secretary-General of the European Centre of the Carnegie Peace Endowment, and here she is answering a question of mine about culture.