
Clark: “In anticipation of the liberation of Rome we are anxious to prepare a special programme for use, of course, only after current military operations have achieved this success.


With US and Canadian forces advancing in Italy, TSE mentioned to John Hayward on 1 June 1944 that the BBC was “planning a broadcast to be recorded and canned against the fall of Rome.” An invitation to speak had arrived the previous day from J. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
