Ambassador Upset By Musical Rats
(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, March 3. The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Arthur Goldberg, walked out of a British television studio last night as he was about to be interviewed about the war in Vietnam because he got “fed up” waiting to go on the air while the station screened a film about musical rats.
“The rats were the last straw,” said a United States Embassy spokesman, who revealed why the Ambassador left. Mr Goldberg, after a day of talks with British and American officials on Vietnam, arrived as planned at a 8.8. C. television studio to appear on its late night news programme, “Twenty - four Hours.” It had been arranged that the interview would have first spot on the programme, but at the studio he was asked
to go on later. He agreed to do so. The programme started with interviews and a film about Ghana, lasting 20 minutes. Then it launched into a light-hearted discussion of the musical tastes of experimental rats and their ability to switch off music they do not like. Mr Goldberg, who had been kept waiting throughout the programme, decided at this point to leave. He returned tn his hotel and left word that he did not want to be disturbed.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 13
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