At War45-03-2790Banshee Harvest

NBC will interrupt all its programs to bring you the latest news. And now, words at war. So that's what has brought you, Tom Amira, to the gallows, to the end of the hangman's rope. Was it worth a tone?

Did you prove anything? I wonder if you could speak now. What would you say? Sure, did it endation for a corpse to speak? Especially when it's hanging by the neck from the hangman's rope? I'd say, yes, we proved something.

I'd say it was worth it. I know there was a big war going on in the world. I know that our fight was regarded near the importance of minor disturbance in the modern country, Ireland.

But man, make no mistake about it. The principles were the same. Our fight was the fight of the little people everywhere. And those of us that died in it. died for freedom too. And maybe no story. There's a listen for the common man everywhere.

National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books and War Time, presents another program in the widely discussed series Words at War, dramatizing the most representative books to come out of this great world conflict. Tonight, Jim Failin's story of neutral Ireland during these war years, banshee harvests. Mr. Failin's story is pure fiction, he makes

no bones about that, but as he indicates in a forward to his book, it is based on his own bitter experiences. After years of residence in England, I was coming back to the island of my childhood, to the mountains of Killevola.

I was coming back as an officer of the Irish police, as Captain Arthur Curtain, a product of Eton and Oxford. Coming to visit my uncle, Barry Muswell, a cattle rancher whom I hadn't seen for years.