POWER OF TALK
AN OLD ICELANDIC PROVERB LITTLK USI-: i X BATTI.KS '"There is ;ui old Icelandic proverb which 1 ot ten wish we bad put up as n streamer across the cud ol this building as a perpetual warning- to us. That proverb is: 'Long <lo men live who are slain with words." '"I believe that might be a useful reminder of tli-:; limitations of the power of.' talk in wartime. Our real function is obvious. It is to do the best we can to help put things right, but a great deal of that can be done by private conversation or by private correspondence. What we can achieve in open debate is strictly limited."—Mr Demnan. 3\1.P., in the House of Commons.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 86, 3 August 1942, Page 6
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123POWER OF TALK Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 86, 3 August 1942, Page 6
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