It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.
Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst.
[2] A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.
[3] Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she [Catherine Shepherd] has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working.
"[4] Richard Gale, a struggling intellectual, becomes attracted to Nazism during the Depression.