The People Who Suffer
THIRTY -EIGHTH PARALLEL, the dramatisation of Rene Cutforth’s Korean Reporter, has, I think, already been mentioned on this page. It certainly deserves to be noticed again, for a second hearing (ftom 1ZB) confirmed the first impression of its honesty and feeling. Mr. Cutforth, playing himse:f, is both hard-boiled. and humane. For him, the war goes’ on mainly along the horizon; what concerns him is the plight of the civilians. the people who suffer on frozen roads and _ refugee-crowded cities, while the privileged soldiery pass ‘among them in godlike indifference. Not that he misunderstands the nature and function of the soldier; but he sees war as it happens-the endless stream of | refugees, the cold, the noise of guns and tanks, the nightmare landscape of burnt ‘towns, the ironical beauty of spring: It | gives the real feel of war, and not 6f this war only. And the people he singles out from the mass, are all significantthe lost boy, the angry doctor, or, most of all, the Korean priest who says with quiet bitterness, "We are sick of war and ruin. . .. We do not like you at all. . .-You have lost our good will .. ."
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 11
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198The People Who Suffer New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 11
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