Unpleasant but Salutary
"NA UST I remember?" I am tempted to plead with Hamlet, when faced with a programme of such bitter extraction as British Agent, the true story of the experiences of Wing *Commander Yeo Thomas after capture by the Germans. It was a most unpleasant programme, but a most necessary one. Forgetting is easy and all too soon, for comfort’s sake, we start convincing ourselves that the Gestapo is something you see on the films, and increasingly old films at that. It needs something like this, something stamped with the Spartan accuracy of the British documentary, to remind us that millions died even less gloriously than on the battlefield. During and immediately after the war programmes of this type could stir us only to impotent rage and sorrow; now I feel there is more we can do about it, even if it is only the negative course of being on our guard to prevent the rise of conditions here as well as abroad which foster the beastliness in man instead -of the good.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 11
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175Unpleasant but Salutary New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 11
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