The Welsh Character
‘[ HE BBC have followed up their programme on the Scots with "Who Are the Welsh?" heard lately from 3YC. One supposes that there will be no programme on the English. This would be in keeping with a national temperament which, even according to its rivals, conquers by permeation and assumption rather than’ by aggressiveness. The Welsh were "original inhabitants of Britain," we were reminded. I suddenly remembered a book of Welsh folk lore I bought recently called "British Goblins." "Who are the Welsh?" I married a member of the race some time back but am still in the dark, even although I see what these informed gentlemen mean by "Puritans" and "Latins"-an original turbulent Latin passion curbed and overlaid by a Methodist puritan tradition: somewhat unpredictable and voleanic! But seriously, these panels tend to exalt virtues without noticing their obverse side. Whole-hearted intensity so admirable in one who is "facing fearful odds" may in other circumstances be a fanaticism ready to see annihilating mountains in the least of molehills. However, the panel did take into account that natrowness which is the other and more crippling side of the word loyalty, and there was an interesting bid for translating Welsh feeling
into English poetry which curiously glided over without mentioning Dylan Thomas,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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214The Welsh Character New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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