TAKES MORE THAN "IRON RATIONS" TO BREED RACE OF BERNARD SHAWS Bernard Shaw, who has just turned SJ, boasts ..that the war has deprived him of hardly anything,, liecause for years he lias lived on what Ministers and scientists today call "the nation's iron ration." He eats mainly oatmeal cereals, bread, milk and fruits. Bernard Shaw reassured a representative of the Evening Standard that adoption of this iron ration was not guaranteed to produce a nation of Shaws. "That would be too much to ask for," he said. The Evening Standard points out that Shaw proved a false prophet regarding the present war. The paper recalls Shaw stated on his 80th birthday that the unlikelihood of war was so strong as to constitute an impossibility. On that occasion, Shaw added: "Poison gas is a great peacemaker. Let us by all means continue to manufacture whole atmospheres of it!'*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 201, 19 August 1940, Page 7
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148Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 201, 19 August 1940, Page 7
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