Un-UN Sentiment?
(CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW’S BBC play, Those in Favour (1YC) was certainly a thought-provoking job, although I am in two minds as to what effect it is likely to have on listeners’ attitudes to the United Nations, Set at Lake Success in 1948, it showed the contrast between the official and the per- —
sonal relationship of Winter, a British delegate, and Volodovski, a Soviet one, and the method used by Lozovzki, the local MVD ‘man, to liquidate Volodovski when detected in a political indiscretion in his contacts with.Winter. Good propaganda for the British concept of democracy aS Opposed to the Soviet doctrine, the play still allowed humanity and finer feelings to the Russian and did not burlesque the Soviet attitude. But I was left wondering whether MVD types did really infest the UN building, contriving "accidents" for deviationists. The excellent cast, notably Robert Harris as Winter, almost sold me on the idea. Incidentally, a reference to "the usual long speech of the New Zealand delegate," apart from its amusing implications, provided a reminder that even remote and insignificant nations have their part to play in the UN-
MVD men or not.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 10
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