Ramsden (a New Zealand journalist and writer) is interviewed about his trip to the USA to study Native American affairs, as a guest of the US State Department. Ramsden talks about the State Department's aid and development programmes for North American Indians and how these could be applied to the Maori of New Zealand.Originally recorded and broadcast as a shortwave transmission by the Voice of America in 1951.Dubbed from a Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recording by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.