Shock Treatment
POR sheer horror, unmitigated by sentiment, anger, or even very much hope, 4YA’s recent BBC programme on the work of the Red Cross would he hard to beat. A parade of suffering humanity was led before us attended by the small band of the compassionate and the devoted, We heard the story of war, famine, disease; of Abyssinia, Spain, Belsen. Had this been the main emphasis of the programme, it would have been little more than an antidote to. complacency. Its peculiar merit lay in an insistence on the value of the in@ividual listener’s efforts to alleviate suffering, not then and there, but here and now, with practical advice on how it
could be done.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 8
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118Shock Treatment New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 8
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