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Days of Battle

HE WAR IN BURMA, recently broadcast from 3YC, is one of the finest documentaries I have heard. Cockney, Scottish, American, African, Indian and Japanese voices all offset each other, while to these was added the soundstrip recorded on the field of battle itself. Above the grim dramatic realism lay the impartiality of the script writer according a tribute to the pitiful heroism of the Japanese fighting until starvation had defeated them. One thing the programmes emphasised was the way in which the West meets its crises with humour, the wry ironical twist the Cockney gives to events or the slow easy wisecrack of the Yanks. Is it completely out of place to wonder whether such a programme does not adversely affect the young mind? War thrusts such obvious and spectacular heroism on men that it is easily glorified. The desperate need of the hour is for a realisation of vision and glory in a field not accompanied by the rat-a-tat-tat of machine

guns.

Westcliff

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 11

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Days of Battle New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 11

Days of Battle New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 11

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