LETTER FROM MOSCOW
G. EF. R. Gedye and the NBS HE National Broadcasting Service has received a letter from G, E. R. Gedye, the well-known special correspondent, about a radio review of his book, "Fallen Bastions." This book, written after the seizure of Czechoslovakia, was widely read, and in the last few months. Mr. Gedye’s despatches from Moscow have been quoted frequently in the cable news published by the New Zealand Press. Here is Mr. Gedye’s letter: The New York Times, Moscow Bureau, Khokhlovsky Pereulok 13/ms Apartment 39, August 16, 1939. Dear Sir,-I have been informed that in a recent talk on modern literature and especially on journalistic books, the speaker criticised " Fallen Bastions" as "too emotional" and cited as an example of my "emotion" my relinquishing of my position with the Daily Telegraph. I am not, of course, concerned with criticism as such, but I should be much obliged if you would correct in a broadcast, or by inserting this letter in some. publication of yours, the suggestion that I resigned from the Daily Telegraph out of " emotion." The simple fact is that I was summoned trom Prague to London by the Editor of the Daily Telegraph and given the alternative of resigning or being dismissed, as my criticisms of Mr. Chamberlain’s policy were incompatible with the position of correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. (Signed ) G. E. R. GEDYE. The National Broadcasting Service referred this letter to the speaker who reviewed "Fallen Bastions" at 2YA, as being apparently the critic to whom Mr. Gedye refers. The reviewer writes that he is unable to supply the exact statement he made about Mr. Gedye’s retirement from the. Daily Telegraph, but says that the following indicates his point of view: "Mr. Gedye is not now the correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and has been reproached by at least one English reviewer who accused him of lack of fairness, and also gave the suggestion that he had been dismissed because his despatches were not impartial. I cannot see this point of view, and think it does not express a reasonable criticism. I believe that a newspaper correspondent who sacrifices a well-paid job for his independence is likely to be accepted as reliable and fair rather than the reverse."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 9
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