WIRELESS IN PRISON
»Sir,-John Bunyan, Ernst Toller and new in lighter vein, O. E. Burton. I hope you will be inundated with congratulations on publishing his "I Discover Wireless — In Prison." Perhaps the sly digs of his rapier will accomplish more than the honest bludgeoning of A. R. D. Fairburn in We New Zealanders, "We are a complacent people; and we love flattery." And Flattery, thy name is Summerskill.
Attaboy, Burton!-
BLACK
MARIA
(Wellington).
Sir,-It is a pity that in an otherwise good article Mr. Burton writes as he does of war commentators, One thinks of E. Colston Shepherd, E. J. McWhinney and Wickham Steed, to name only three of many. These are the men Mr. Burton would like to "drag round noman’s land through the mud and under the muzzles of machine-guns, etc."? Most of them have seen as much active service as Mr. Burton, Mr. McWhinney began a recent talk with "In an hour I shall be at sea with the Navy." I don’t quite know what a "fruity" voice is, but if Mr. Burton means an educated English voice, not many New Zealanders share his complex.. Part of the great appeal of the Dorothy Sayers plays recently broadcast so successfully was the good English voices of the actors.
COUNTRYWOMAN
(Hastings).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 270, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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213WIRELESS IN PRISON New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 270, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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