INDEPENDENCE DAY
Sir-I listened to the special Independence Day programme with mixed feeling. Obviously a great deal of thought had been put into its preparation, but it doesn’t take much thought to decide who most typically portrays the independent spirit of U.S.A. You may say Roosevelt, MacArthur or perhaps Charlie Chaplin, but I think Paul Robeson takes first place, and surely that spirit is perfectly expressed in his rendering of "Ballad for Americans," a recording which is heard too infrequently in New Zealand. I suggest that this recording, backed by a commentary to bring in the local colour, would have been simpler than the elaborately prepared programme itist ended.
M. S.
SUTCH
(Blenheim).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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113INDEPENDENCE DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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