Amazing New Zealander
|-OREIGN editor of The Times and confidant of statesmen and ambassadors, Harold Williams was one of the. most amazing men New. Zealand has produced. Master of 58 languages, he could make himself understood not only in evéry part of Europe, which was his_ principal stamping-ground as a journalist, but also in most other parts of the globe. In St. Petersburg — now Lenin-grad-he was once called on to settle a difference arising between a Russian agency and a group of Papuan performers. The New Zealander was one of the few people who spoke both Russian and Papuan. The career of this extraordinary journalist, linguist and_ political counsellor, is outlined in The Amazing Harold Williams, a dramatic documentary programme to be broadcast by 2YA at 9.30 am. on Sunday, July 4, and by 2XN at 9.30 p.m. on Thursday, July 8. The programme was written by O. A. Gillespie, the author or adaptor of many NZBS productions,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 31
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158Amazing New Zealander New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 31
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