After Many Years
HE ZB memorial programme The First Anzac Day, was an interesting reconstruction of a story told so often
that its details are in danger of becoming blurred. The commentator’s script illustrated vividly, I thought, the emotional gulf which lies between the generations of the First and Second Wars, a difference that is also apparent in the attitudes displayed by the corresponding groups of war novels. Perhaps we are too close in time to the battle of Crete, for instance, to expand emotionally about it; or perhaps the mental climate has changed. In any case, I have yet to hear a programme about the Second World War which can speak unashamedly about "heroic sacrifice" and "dedication on the altar of nationhood," even if the lofty quality of the sentiments is broken down somewhat, as in this programme, by the self-consciously rough accents presumably intended as an approximation to natural local speech. Yet this programme was to be applauded, J thought, not only for the care which had gone into its smooth: presentation, but also for the idea of telling the story again, rather than merely relaying yet another Anzac Day service,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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193After Many Years New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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