Politicians' Dream?
BC programmes inevitably come to us a little late, but occasionally lateness may be almost an advantage. This was decidedly the case, I thought, with the programme on the East African groundnuts scheme, broadcast on Sunday, November 27, from 4YA. Listeners who had been reading in their daily papers a day or two before of the storm enveloping Mr. Strachey in the House of Commons over this very scheme, must have felt themselves in a position of knowing superiority to | the narrator, talking so innocently of | the scheme in its days of youth and |
enthusiasm, At the | same time I felt that the radio programme illumined ‘and coftected the newspaper feport. From the men on the spot we heard the story of the difficulties which
have sent the estimate of cultivated | areas down to one-fifth of the original and the costs soaring to twice the estimate. The result might have been foretold. Indeed, one speaker said, "If a | year more had been spent in planning | the scheme, it would never have been begun, because the planners would have said it was impossible." But, plainly, he would not have had this happen. It is sometimes worth while to attempt the impossible. There is a sense in which even the unprofitable may be said to pay,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 11
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