The Tightrope Walk
UR world last week took a further step along the tightrope over chaos. Some time ago I heard a latter-day Cassandra on Background to the News (2YA) beg leave to distract us from the Budget to frighten us for a few minutes about Lebanon. As far ag this listener was concerned, she succeeded most thoroughly in her self-appointed task. Ending her analysis of events in the Middle East, she sought to answer her own question what the ordinary men and women of the world could do to avert disaster; but no answer came, save the admonition, now as she admitted quite ‘out of fashion, to pray, and to pray hard. In days of distress we can tune in immediately to hear what the rulers of our country have to say. The morning after the landings in Lebanon, Parliament, still distracted by the Budget, offered us the small change of politics at Question Time. On Lookout Mr Keith Jackson, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Otago, gave us the facts and their terrifying possible consequences with gravity and concern. The NZBS at least, is playing its part in trying to open our eyes to the abyss below.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 21
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201The Tightrope Walk New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 21
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