Ten Years After
‘TEN years ago-on May 8, 1945-the war in Europe ended. The news-flash went out from London at 1300 G.M.T. It’s this flash and Mr. Churchill’s proclamation which begins The Promise of Peace, an NZBS programme at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, May 8. The programme, which gives a compasite picture of what happened all over New Zealand on May 8 and the day after, is made of NZBS recordings, selected and arranged by Basil Clarke, with William Austin as narrator. h Though VE Day was officially celebrated on May 9, it was on the day the news came through ' that the people "went to town." As the programme says, "The mood was: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." Listeners will get again a vivid impression of how the occasion was marked, first in a joyous celebration and later in the official] proclamation and the thanksgiving services. The programme then goes on to comment on the promise of peace today. "In the threat which now hangs over us-huge, and in the mind’s eye shaped like a towering mushroom-there is a promise of peace which no one would like to see fulfilled."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 22
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196Ten Years After New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 22
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