Behind the Curtain
)NE of the greatest difficulties oncountered by the individual in his search for "the truth regarding international affairs is to know’ whom to trust. What, for example, is the truth concerning life behind the Iron Curtain? Of course, there are people with strong views who assert that everything written against the Soviet Union is malicious propaganda and others who think every favourable review is a cover to evil doings. Personally, I listen with greatest attention to those who bring me a balanced verdict, or, to be more precise, who present their verdict in a balanced fashion. In regard to the latter, scarcely anything I have so far read or listened to carried quite the conviction of R. A. Close’s Friends Behind the Curtain, a BBC talk broadcast from 3YC. A member of the British Council in Prague, Mr. Close quietly explained the impediments to the fulfilment of his task. True, the picture he drew of the surreptitious meetings he had to make with his friends must be _ balanced against a hypothetical Czech cultural ambassador in England or New Zealand. However, I do not think sucha man would meet quite the feeling of domestic restraint which hangs like a pall over daily life in Prague.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 11
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208Behind the Curtain New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 11
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