Assertion of Faith
HE most successful propaganda, it has been said, is indirect. I murmured assent to this as I listened to the moving BBC documentary, Children of Europe. Its ostensible purpose was to show what is being done on the Continent by selfsacrificing men and women for the homeless and crippled children of World War II. It did this with all the customary BBC realism and good taste. We met the psychiatrists, social workers and religious who have brought happiness and a new life to broken bodies and scarred souls; we heard tragic stories from the children themselves; we listened to the maimed children of the Milan House of Charity playing football with their priests and understood what the commentator meant when he called a visit to this House "a tremendous emotional experience." But as, az the end, the children sang "Come and live with us where life is so sweet" (with its incongruous reminiscences of "Sweet Violets") the chief impressions I retained were of an assertion of faith in human beings through the evidence of deep love and understanding ang. more strengly, of a --
conviction that each one of us is bound to do his utmost to ensura that the children of another eeneration shall not
suffer as these have done.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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215Assertion of Faith New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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