To All Hands

Words at War presents to all hands, starring its author Lieutenant John Mason Brown. We were two days out from the United States when I was summoned to the Bridge of Arth flagship by Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk.

Mr. Brown, I want to talk to you about your battle station. Yes, sir? You may have seen that you're listed as Bridge announcer. This means that I want you to be up here on the bridge during the action and report it play-by-play to the men below.

You know only one man out of ten on a modern ship in combat can see what's going on. I want you to do their seeing for them. There's a democratic war and I believe that men who are willing to give their lives for democracy have the right to know what's going on.

Informing them will be one of your duties. Suppose you start this afternoon by broadcasting to the ship on the formation of the convoy. That was the beginning of these talks to the men of the Stelzen, Admiral Kurtz, Flag Of course, Speldin was not her name. As every playgoer knows, George Speldin is a name always to be found on theatre programs,

when a performer does not wish to have his identity revealed. Security demands that our ship have this same passion for anonymity. But at any rate, this is the record of a void she made long ago, and the part she played in the invasion of Sicily, The record as I kept it, in the daily talks from Admiral Kurtz Bridge, talks that our public

address system carried to all parts of the ship, to all hands. Words at War The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time, presents another in its series of radio adaptations of the outstanding books of this war.