LAUGHING AT DIFFICULTIES
[ The British have a wartime weakness for making fun of themselves. They proved that in the Avar of 191418, when comic magazines did better than any others, and they are proving it again to-day, particularly in their cartoons. The best thing about British humour is that it inv> proves as the Avar goes on. Paper rationing, for example, which is really serious to the publishing houses, has been a cartoon i subject for Punch. The artist shows a publisher handing a huge novel innuscript back to a typical unkempt novelist, and has the publisher saying: "We are not interested in your manuscript, but we would like to make you an offer for the paper." The ability of the British to laugh at difficulties is one of their most endearing characteristics. Nothing is too serious for them to make a joke about, even at a time Avhen the British Empire is at stake.— James B. Reston, in NeAv York Times
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 76, 10 July 1942, Page 4
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162LAUGHING AT DIFFICULTIES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 76, 10 July 1942, Page 4
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