TALKS ON RUSSIA
Sir-G.H.D. was surprised that no one commented on the Broadcasting Service’s policy in inviting Mr. Norris Collins to broadcast seven talks about Russia. I should, however, point out that Mr. W. A. Hudson, M.P., who asked a question in the House during the present session, raised at least his voice concerning this. On the other hand, nobody protested against Mr. J. M. Bertram’s two talks about Czechoslovakia delivered over the air in the same style, in spite of the fact that Mr. Bertram is a scholar from Victoria University College in Wellington, and Mr, Norris Collins is
a worker from the tramway workshops in Christchurch, Listeners in their indifference and apathy do not protest when the NZBS flirts with Communism, and they do not heed the warning words of a well-known English expert in public affairs in countries behind the Iron Curtain (Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, K.C.M.G.). He spent a_ considerable time in the British Diplomatic Service in Moscow and Prague, speaks Russidn and Czech fluently, and says in his My Europe: "Communists are not a Party, but a conspiracy; Communism is not a policy but a creed which is more dangerous than Nazi-ism because, although the god-head is in Moscow, its appeal is international."
BOHUMIR
NOVAK
(Wellington).
Sir,-I trust the NZBS will not place undue importance on G.H.D.’s letter concerning the Collins talks. His remarks are more those of a bigot than a man with any sense of proportion or fairness. "For some years,’ he writes solemnly, "books have been appearing which paint a totally different picture of life in Soviet Russia." This is not news to us. The general public have been nearly deafened by the anti-Soviet cacophony blaring from all mediums. A relief it is, then, to hear some contrary views, and these from a New Zealander who has visited the Soviet Unions What goes on in the Soviet is an issue of great importance. Only by discussion can we learn the truth. o-oo
BRIAN
BELL
(Auckland)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 5
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333TALKS ON RUSSIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 5
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