Dutch and British
There was good question-and-answer in Town Forum Visits Holland. In Amsterdam four British speakers answered questions about Britain from their Dutch hosts. There is always a faintly malicious pleasure in watching a man torn between simple patriotism and pure veracity. Our representatives, aiming at the truth, seemed to me to have taken the right line. The British attitude to the Dutch in Indonesia seemed a favourite theme ; more than one speaker had to confess an ignorance of a subject that was clearly, in Amsterdam, a burning question. In these days of newsprint short- age, would it not do a public service if the B.B.C. brought over here, for discussion, speakers from Holland, France, Italy, Germany and the rest? It would lighten our ignorance of the individual problems of Europe.
All drama this week, and for some weeks to come, is overshadowed by Faust in Mr. Louis MacNcice's new translation. There are to be six parts, with two programmes to each part ; and it is too early yet to say more than that the undertaking has begun brilliantly. The B.B.C. has clearly determined to make a tremendous investment of its talent in Faust.
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