SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 24, 8 December 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

T is not sufficiently recognised that the iron mines which carried Germany through the last war lie behind the Maginot Line in France to-day.-Willson Woodside. * * * ‘THE whole town of Lwow was enveloped in fire and smoke. This, indeed, was a picture more beautiful than I was ever capable of imagining.Nazi pilot broadcasting from Berlin. * * * T would not be a bad plan to have a Ministry of Psychology.-Beverley Baxter, M.P. % * * "T HE British White Paper will prove conclusively who started the war. We have a sinking feeling that we know who is going to be asked to finish it. -The New Yorker. a * * [t is now revealed that, owing to metal shortage, Tron Crosses are to be made of cardboard. Nazis are forbidden to wear them in the rain.-Low, in the Evening Standard. ok % ok LOT of people who have labels on their cars go at any speed they like, and I think they should be given a shake-up.-L1t.-Col. R. V. Gwynne, * * * Have you noticed that this is the war of G-men? Look at them-Gamelin, the French supreme commander; Georges, Chief of the French General Staff; Gort, Generalissimo of the British Expeditionary Force; Godfrey, Chief of the British Marines; Goering, fattest Nazi; Goebbels, world’s biggest bluffer-Evening Standard. * %* * (GERMANY can never pass the rampart of the Red Army. The Russians have struck a more terrific blow against Nazi Germany than all the bombs and guns that have gone off in the west.William Gallacher, Communist M.P. Ed a * PEACE is better than war, because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.-Croesus, to Cambyses. % * * ‘T HE cable firms have instructed newspapermen here to stop using the American "tonite" for "to-night " in cables to London. The reason: Tonite is a high explosive-and censors squeaked.-Walter Winchell, in the "New York Daily Mirror."