Stateless and Homeless
jas LSOOBKBESS ounday evening talk on Europe’s D.P.’s was a fitting follow-up to the Good Friday programme Children of Europe. The BBC feature came to us from England and to some may not have seemed on that account so immediate in its appeal. But Miss Crookes is back with us in New Zealand, and her story was directed straight at her fellow-countrymen, with all the artlessness which sincerity can afford, She had seen the displaced persons’ camps in Europe, she had worked side ‘by side in one with a British nurse of (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) Polish birth who had given up a comfortable job in England in order to be in camp with her old father: The most memorable part of Miss Crookes’s talk was concerned with the old people, those who had no chance of appearing in the tole of "selected immigrants,’ whose whole future could be encompassed in the sightseer’s single glance from wall to wall of the camp. Last time I remember hearing Miss Crookes speak over. the air was on the occasion. of the Miss New Zealand quest, when she deliberately kept some thousands of listeners on tenterhooks and took her time about producirig the significant name. On this occasion she was in a position to dispense with showmanship and give full rein to her humanity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 10
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228Stateless and Homeless New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 10
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