At War45-04-1793They Left The Back Door Open

Words at war. This is the story of a man of simple heart, who went out and did something about freedom and justice and decency. He did not rest his foot on a rail and pound words into a mahogany bar.

He cleansed his indignant fists and moved in wrath against the forces of evil. Some people who knew Bill Donaldson, the people in his hometown in Regina, Canada, others in England. They think of Bill as a boy who disgraced his family.

But to those who have seen his soul as I have, he's one of the great, unrecorded heroes of our time. A hero, despite the fact that he said, there's nothing else I can do, believe me.

I'm going to desert from the British Army. I tell you he was a hero, and you will see why. When I have told you the story of my brother, Bill. National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Council on Books and War Time presents another program in the widely discussed series, Words at War.

Many of the books dramatized on this program deal with issues which have stimulated considerable controversy. It is not the purpose of Words at War or the National Broadcasting Company to take sides on these issues, but merely to bring you the most representative books to come out of this great world conflict. Our story tonight is based on a portion of LSB Shapiro's book,

They Left the Back Door Open. They're always said that Bill was typical old country. My sister Betty and I had studied and worked to make a place for ourselves in the new world, but Bill, Bill still belonged to the crowded poverty-stricken slums of Glasgow.