Five Years of NATO
N listening to 2ZB’s Sunday night Defence of the West, mammoth and steamrollerish as an armoured division, I feel I paid for all the sins of omission committed when I beheaded the news straight after the headlines. But I paid willingly-it was a good programme First broadcast in April, 1954, to mark (one feels "celebrate" is not the word) five years of NATO, it came to us up-to-the-year rather than up-to-the-minute, but it gained increased validity from the fact that its cautious predictions and réasonable hopes have been fulfilled. It was certainly a programme commanding respect. First for. NATO itself, that initial-studded association of nations beginning as "a gleam in a planner’s eye," and now numbered off from the right and cross-sections and channelled into Givisions and supply-lines and Strategic Headquarters. Second, to the BBC and producer Laurence Gilliam, who shaped this material into a programme with form and striking power, and told it in close-lipped military terms, including only a modicum of planners piety.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 11
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171Five Years of NATO New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 11
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