Ladies First
E haven’t Hoopef Ratings in New Zealand, thank Heaven, but it is safe enough to say that the radio audience at 10.0 a.m. is only half what it is at 8.0 p.m. However, half an earful is better than no lug, and it is pleasant to find 3YA broadcasting a weekly world affairs talk during the morning women’s session, Last week Gordon Troup did a lively little piece on Benes, whom be had met at Geneva in 1925, There Troup interpreted an address for him, from French into English. Benes thanked him and said he knew enough English to tell a good interpretation when he heard one. "I've been interpreting all my life between East and West," he said. That was a rather more difficult job of interpretation, and when Benes died there was less common ground on which ah interpreter could stand than there was in 1925, and apparently very little willingness on either side to find common ground. Of Benes’s death Troup said: "He was crushed between the fist state of the Soviet Union and the open palm states of the West." An apt sentence, ‘violent and_ final,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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192Ladies First New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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