J. C. Stobart where in 1907 Stobart became a lecturer at Trinity College. Two years later he was appointed one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools and during the First World War worked for the Ministry of Munitions before acting as Assistant Secretary to the British War Cabinet of 1917–18. After the war, he helped organise the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and in 1925 joined the BBC as its first Director of Education. He was responsible for two long-lasting programmes, "Children's Hour" and "The Epilogue" and according to one source suggested the BBC's motto, 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation]'. He
Nation with a state, the term "nation-state" is often used... 2. A community of people inhabiting a defined territory and organized under an independent government; a sovereign political state... Ernest Renan's "What is a Nation?" (1882) declares that "race is confused with nation and a sovereignty analogous to that of really existing peoples is attributed to ethnographic or, rather linguistic groups", and "[t]he truth is that there is no pure race and that to make politics depend upon ethnographic analysis is to surrender it to a chimera", echoing a sentiment of civic nationalism. He also claims that a nation does not