LOOKOUT
Sir,-Although the programme. Lookout is announced each week as "a New Zealand commentary on the international news," a distinctively and independently New Zealand point of view is not often noticeable. This is partly because many Lookout speakers are still comparatively recent arrivals from Britain and because even some New Zealand-born commentators still choose to identify New Zealand interests and foreign policy with those of Britain. This was well borne out during the Suez action but even as recently as a few months ago I heard one Lookout speaker refer to "our House of Lords .. ." For these reasons alone, the two: recent Lookout broadcasts of Dr Martin Finlay of Auckland were memorable and stimulating. His timely and outspoken warnings on the impending American intervention in Lebanondespite open UN disapproval-was, I feel sure, applauded by every thinking New Zealander. Now that this has become a stark and perilous reality with the seal of British approval and the active support of British intervention in Jordan, the need for outspoken and independent New Zealand comment is
greater still.
O. E.
MIDDLETON
(Waiau Pa).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 11
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