SUNDAY NIGHT TALKS
Sir, —The rambling and circumscribed letter from "J.H.F." on this matter is beside the point. Is it of vital importance for the winning of the war' and the "saving of millions of lives" and all the rest of it that Mr. Nash's address* should have been timed like a piece of machinery to take place at a certain and predetermined moment? If it is the opinion of "J.H.F." that we "should have to forgo beautiful music" that coidd scarcely have taken another five minutes to conclude, in order not to delay the address one second, it does not say much for his love of beautiful music. The quality of John Startler's Oratorio is such that it makes matters doubly worse than if the record that was so unceremoniously cut off the air were a mere American music hall nigger-minstrel jazz band. I do not think Mr. Nash would have raised any objection to waiting a few more minutes. It is more likely that radio-station employees were to blame for the incident, in their feverish* insistence on time limits. J. Oiut.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 10
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