SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 5

SHORTWAVES

HAT Napoleon failed to achieve in twenty years has been accomplished by his modern counterparts-that is to convert the peace-loving British into a military nation.-General Sir Walter Kirke, before August. * * * I KNOW why I am alive, but I do not know why I eat.-Roland Penrose, the Surrealist artist, before August. * * * HAVE led several people to the discovery of a wide range of literature by an open confession that Milton’s longer poems bore me stiff.-The Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple. % * * "THE public library has produced a reading public. Can it produce a public capable of discrimina-tion?--Edward Green. * 2 * ‘THE profit motive is bunk.-Henry Ford. * * ** 7. IVILISATION must de-urbanise or die-Bigham Oliver. * x * PAEtT of the Government seem to be converted to the idea of a Ministry of Supply, and part are still living in sin-Lord Swinton. * * * ‘THE past of the motion picture, exciting as it is, is so short that the great accomplishments of the film lie ahead, not behind-From an NBS broadcast talk. * * x ; AKEFIELD was a good writer and a propagandist of genius. His gifts were offset by characteristics that caused no end of trouble.-H. G. Miller, on Edward Gibbon Wakefield, * * % N New Zealand (motor insurance) premiums are more carefully adjusted in relation to claims than in any other British Dominion-J. H. Jerram, in a road safety broadcast. | Bg BS we , N°? enemy ever really conquered the HighlanderRoman or English-but the Road did. General Wade saw that perhaps spades were better weapons than guns.-A broadcast on The Black Watch. % * x HERE are all kinds of social attractions in towns, but to-day these are not very much greater than the country can provide. Opportunity is the real magnet.-L. R. Palmer, discussing Town versus Country life. tk x * wou we rather be allied to Soviet Russia or Germany? Would a man rather have measles or smallpox?--M. Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the U.S.A., before August. :