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LAN B. PLAITNT, newly-appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. at a Preaa Club meeting in Winnipeg !aa? Saturday night. Hif modesty on that occasion, combined with his quiet air of competence, made one desirous of improving the acquaintance.Mr. Plaunt is an Ottawa man, the son of Mr. and Mrr. Francois Xavier Plaunt. The name was originally Plante, but the rugged Scots of Ontario knew a darn sight better than any Frenchman how' it ought to be spelled. Mr. Plaunt is 32, a graduate of St. m Andrew's College. Toronto, and Toronto University: and holds an M A. in history from Oxford. Mis business at present is lumber-artumbfarkiing in the Ottawa Arm of which his father ^ ia head | .After graduation from Oxford, he return- ^ ed to Canada to become a member of the j ^ Canadian delegation to the second biennial ^ conference of the Institute of Pacific Rela- r| tions, under the chairmanship of Hon. New- j (| ton Howell. The conference met in Kyoto, Japan, that year, so Mr. Plaunt'* homecoming to Ottawa was merely a brief halt before pushing on to the Far Fast.En route to Kyoto, the Canadian delega-j tion toured parts of China, and m«t thr rising dictator. Chiang-Kai-Shek Mr. Plaunt was impressed by Chiang-Kai-Shek. butmore so by his wife, a lady of high intelligence. who is a member of the famous Chinese family of Soong. Among her relatives sre some of the most eminent personages at Nanking and the late patriarch of Chinese nationalism. Dr. Sun Yat-scn, was also related to her.From Kyoto. Mr. Plaunt speeded across ' Russia by train, through Germany, and dmvn to Cairo, where he met his parents Some | Mediterranean wanderings, including visits ' to Palestine and Baghdad, preceded his return home In Palestine, his observation* made him sympathetic toward the Arabs who were, be ng dispossessed bv nch immigrants.• • •titcofmrfMtcistitfV*CFuiVIoClhiks#GttisYUpon his return to Ottawa in 11130, Mr. Plaunt became associated with Graham Spry, former Winnipegger, In the formation of th« f* Canadian Radio league. This organization was designed as a central assembly for All public societies, such as the Canadian legion and Trades Union Congress, intrrested in promoting radio as a public utility. It gave a voice to what might be called the ‘ general public point of view toward Canadian radio.as opposed to special interests.“So far as the councils of the Rlt;»*rd of Governors go,*' Mr. Plaunt said. “I am especially keen on speaking on behalf of the Wrst. T feel that Western Canada is solidly behind the idea of a public service, non-commercial radio, which is the ideal toward which I believ** we are aiming Since I have been here I have had some very flattering evidences shat Western people are looking to me to express that point of view, and I certainly hope to do so. Easterner as I am, Ihat (siwOlsitlnhc.sirlt;hanbappreciate very deeply the confidence the •= West is putting in me S]i The Canadian Radio league held its in- 'lt; augural meeting in the Chateau Iaurier, Ot-: tawa in 1930 Since then its most import-t ant work was done at *he oaGjamentiry j i committee on radio in 1932. which resulted v» in the Radio Broadcasting Act of that year, t The views of the Radio League were express- h , ed to some extent in that act. Mr. Plaunt s sa»d hut the type of commission ultimately j formed was not what they had hoped for. as it combined the legislative and administrative functions in thr persons of the thr*e commissioners. The present system, whereby the advisory board of governors, dealing- !with matters of policy, ass separated from h the administrative organization under the v general manager, was more in keeping with 1 the plan advocated by the League. sIt teems probable that even it the project wildly hoped for, of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation headquarter* in (he rightful a centre of the Dominion —Winnipeg- does not rcome about the VVeat wilt hetr*« have ra worthy exponent of its view* in one of the s Eastern board members at a*f. 1
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Oct 27, 1936
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