Korea on the Air
APART from the title there was little of Ouida in the first UN Radio programme I have heard, Under One Flag, a@ dramatised discussion on United Nations intervention in Korea. Once again we have that familiar figure I always feel so much sympathy with, the man-in-the-street who doesn’t know what it’s all about, and who is allowed -nay, encouraged-to give tongue to temarks which are at their best doubt-ing-Thomas and at their worst downright cheap sneers, such as, "Well, you didn’t manage to stop the war in Korea, did you?" and "Wasn’t it a bit illegal, when Russia wasn’t there to vote?" remarks which you or I would possibly be too mealy-mouthed to voice in the hearing of one of the United Nations higher-ups, but which. this particular UN advocate pounces on atid demolishes with the zest of a cinema psychiatrist dissecting a complex. But the programme had a sound ear for drama as well as for dialectics. This was manifested in the title (it could have been (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) called. "Korean Crisis" or "Whither United Nations?") and in the impressive insertions of documentary material -the recordings of speeches delivered at the first General Assembly, the moving eye-witness account of the assassination of Count Bernadotte.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 23, Issue 583, 25 August 1950, Page 11
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