Unhappy Conclusion
THE ROAD TO THE CHARTER, a UN Radio feature commemorating the organisation’s eleventh birthday, was a sufvey of attempts to achieve international order through the ages. It told a familiar story-rather too familiar — of steady evolution through rudimentary and unsuccessful experiments to the final consummation in the United Nations. Certainly it broke new ground even for UN Radio by beginning the story in China, but it soon moved to Greece and Rome; after which, it told us, the darkness descended over Europe until the new stirrings of thought in the 15th century. Surely it’s rather late to repeat this clap-trap? To any survey which went beyond the obvious the period of Christendom would be of the greatest relevance. But UN Radio seems incapable of going beyond the obvious. Its producers know all the technical tricks, but the necessity to offend nobody, to say only what most people at present believe, seems to have (continued on next page)
so got into their bones that their features nearly always sound as if they have. been written by men who have lost the power of independent thought. Machines would do it as well. If this is a picture of what living in an international society is going to do ‘to us, heaven help us. I’m unhappy about reaching this conclusion, but I can’t avoid it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 888, 10 August 1956, Page 20
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224Unhappy Conclusion New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 888, 10 August 1956, Page 20
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