Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

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MARK SCOTT, English instructor at Harper University, answered a girl student's bitter question about the war, like this: "It's much easier to look at history and say, there's always been war, than it is to take a real look at history and figure out why the wars happened, how the wars were different, or how they were alike. There have been wars and wars. And no war for centuries has been founded on any spontaneous urge of one people to rise up and do battle with some other people. It has never been as easy, or as hopeless as that. Wars have happened for reasons that can be, and will be preventable in the future. When the United Nations have won this war with guns and blood, they'll do what we didn't do after the other war. They'll guarantee the victory by building a people's world in which the germs of war will be known and isolated. And war will not have to happen again. Just as surely as people do not have to die of diseases that used to be considered fatal. It'll take work, but no more work than war does." (Played by Chester Stratton) r 1/ DR. REIMER, a scholar exiled by the Nazis, lives in New York. Over seventy, he has begun a new life without bitterness or despair. Of his feeling for America, he says: "The measure of my love for this land and this people is the love I had and 1 shall always have for the land and the people of my birth. At my age it is painful beyond words to be cast out of home and home-land; the hope 1 had of walking along the familiar streets again, of talking with old friends and sitting in remembered rooms again, is made less tenable by the fact of my years. Sometimes I could cry out with the horrible pain of homesickness. Surely the homesickness will never leave my heart. But as that is a longing for the good things, the beauty and the joy we once knew in our daily life, so it can and it does serve always to remind me that wherever there are people of good will, there can be beauty and joy even for the lonely." (Played by Phil Clarke) 25