ABSTRACT
This chapter deals first with the creation of the single ITU at Madrid in 1932 through the fusion of the International Telegraph Union and the International Radio Union. It there goes into a fair amount of detail as to the first general ITU Convention, that of Madrid, 1932, and the various Regulations there adopted. The re-creation of 1947 at Atlantic City requires a similar level of treatment. Thereafter, however, the modifications of the basic structure can be noted more summarily. In the period the radio responsibilities of the ITU were to increase significantly. I leave the Radio Regulations themselves from 1947 to a separate treatment in Chapter 5.
