At War45-01-1681Verdict On India

Words at war. India. India. Land of mystery in Oriental magic. The alluring glamour of the notch fairs. Land of the Taj Mahal. The fearful conjurations of the snake charms.

India. Where to who is the law of the land? I see. Huh. Mr. Nichols. Mr. Nichols. We're on the air. I know you are. That's what bothering me. You're doing this all wrong. We are?

We are? I assure you, Mr. Costa. In the first place, that travel-log stuff doesn't go anymore. It's a outdated, messaged, entirely the wrong tone for my book. Don't believe me? We'll have to begin another way.

Well, this is your program, Mr. Nichols. How would you like to start? Well, that's very decent, are we? How would I start it? Well, now let's see. Yet, suppose you take us to a group of Americans who happen to be chatting about India at this moment.

Anyway. You mean through the magic of radio, of course. Exactly. Oh, Charlie, will you switch us to the X transmitter? We're going to make magic. And while you're doing that, let's have some theme music.

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's book was written by the English novelist and essayist Beverly Nichols, who of course will be impersonated. His book is a record of personal observances on one of the most urgent and absorbing problems of modern times.

It's titled, Verdict on India. Did you make a change over Charlie? Fine. Now Mr. Nichols, if you're ready, we'll move on to some American conversation. Okay, we're allies, I realize that and we've got to stick together.