Tried for Treason
ENNIFER WAYNE’S Treason on / Trial, heard lately from 2YA, is an examination of four treason trials in recent history, Bukharin in Moscow, Cardinal Mindszenty in Budapest, Fuchs in London, and Alger Hiss in New York. It is a disturbing, almost an irritating programme, because’ it presents in a detached way issues that are. emotionaily so much alive. No attempt has been made to utilise the drama of the legal process; the trials are presented to the audience at third-hand, in the form of post-mortems by a quavery judge who is concernea solely with evaluating che legal bases on which the decisions were based (full marks to Britain and U.S.A., almost nil to Hungary and the U.S.S.R.). The impersonal presentation was nicely calculated to héighten .ur sense of the personal tragedy@but I felt the moral of the programme was over-
stressed.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 11
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145Tried for Treason New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 11
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