AERIAL COMBATS.
A<i one whose son i« risking hi? life in the air defence of Britain and Now Zealand I strongly support Mr. Algie's protest against that broadcast of the air battle. The whole thin:: might have been a boxing or a football match, and instead of bringing home to us in New Zealand the reality of this beastlr -war. it reduces it to a "show" to be watched in a detached manner. If tout correspondents approve of a broadcaster gloat - in? over an enemy soldier's death, lot him do so. but for heaven's «-ake take our boys' sacrifices and risks in "hU war out of the category of a match—into which they are classed r ,v "he broadcaster. The boys themselves may look on it a< a "dog fijhl" and take it all lightly—but the broadcaster ha> no ricrht to do so. 1 fo 7 ( an .l I am sure no other parent i do not want to hear that sort of description of wh.it
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 176, 26 July 1940, Page 6
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