SHORTWAVES
URING a recent black-out test in London, Boy Scouts were scattered about the streets as casualties, ready to be patched up and carried off by efficient nurses. But when one party of V.A.D.’s, who had been delayed, reached the spot where their last accident should have been lying, all they found was a piece of paper on which was written: "Have bled to death and gone home." * * * [T= is extremely unintelligent not to be humane.Wyndham Lewis. * % * bs haces re-open my place of business, having completed my 60 days in our county gaol. Old and new customers appreciated. Advertisement in Iowa paper. * * * NOTHING short of a fundamental change in the international system can possibly avert disaster. -The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, before August. * %* * ONLY justice can give security, and by " justice" I mean the recognition of the equal claims of all human beings.-Bertrand Russell. * * * M4N is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.-Hazlitt. * * * A ONE-EYED New Yorker of independent mind has a set of glass eyes of progressive degrees of bloodshotness. When he attends one of Manhattan’s gayer parties, he discreetly changes his glass eye at fitting intervals to match the increasing redness of his real eye. The 13th eye has, instead of a clear blue iris, an unfurled American flag. * * * I ALWAYS advise young writers to use the native slang-but only discreetly, only with reservas tions of taste. Shakespeare knew the trick-H. L. Mencken, in a U.S.A. broadcast. * * * t Beni younger generation of artists and sculptors say that form need no longer be subject to the laws of appearances.-Sir William Rothenstein, in a televised discussion. * * * A® to these poulterers’ exhibits, all I need say is that they are very fine birds indeed. What Lenin is doing in the background I cannot determine. -Wyndham Lewis on an example of modern art in the same discussion,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 12, 15 September 1939, Page 7
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327SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 12, 15 September 1939, Page 7
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