Final Summary

The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Norman Carwins, One World Flight. There was little Jane, the English speaking school girl in the Russian broadcast. Good morning, good morning, good morning to you.

Good morning, good morning. We are glad to see you. And the beggar song in the Chinese program. and the Maori chorus in the report from New Zealand. You have just listened to voices recorded in Russia, China and New Zealand.

Three excerpts among the hundreds heard in the course of twelve broadcasts in this unique and unprecedented CBS series, which comes to a close tonight. For this is the 13th and last program based upon Norman Corwin's recent global tour as first winner of the One World Flight Award.

At the end of the broadcast, Mr. Corwin will announce on behalf of the One World Award Committee the second recipient of the award, the name of the man who will start out on another globe circling trip this year in the interests of peace and one world.

This is Norman Corwin. Just as a traveler reentering this country declares his purchases at customs, I submit for inspection in this last broadcast the main impressions of my global trip. The first of them is that in less than two years since victory, too much has been forgotten. This was reinforced in my mind by an experience of the past week.

I was hunting through recordings of the One World flight and came across a mislaid item which didn't belong in the log. It was a disc made by the BBC in London in September 1940. I played it and what came from my loudspeaker jolted me back to those days and made me realize I knew how much has been forgotten. Here's the authentic soundtrack of a mere twenty seconds