Richard Dimbleby
ERHAPS ‘it is too soon to wonder which of the war broadcasts of these past five years will live longest and clearest in our memory in old age, but there is little chance of forgetting the evening when Richard Dimbleby, speaking through the BBC, told us what he had seen at a German concentration camp that same day. Even those who have made, year after year, a consistent effort to face the facts of war, found that they could still be shocked beyond speech. For people did not talk about
it at once; the imagination was for a while immobilised by the task that was expected of it. It has been said that the only hope for the world is for us to train the imagination until the sufferings of people wham we do not know become as real as our own, I doubt whether the radio, or any ether medium, has ever sent us further along this hard road than it did that night. The strengthening of our purpose and our understanding was the only possible good that could be salvaged from the wreckage that was found in these camps» We will, I think, live to be grateful that there were those there at the time who saw at once that this was the concern of the whole world, and had the courage and ability to insist on our participation.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8
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233Richard Dimbleby New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8
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