SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

NCE you drew pictures of British lions, Russian bears and German eagles striking attitudes and saying things like, " Bravo, little Belgium!" or "This must not go on, Sir!" to each other. But this is all so foreign to the spirit of to. day as to seem like fairytale stuff. The British lion and whatnot are a lot of obsolete rot.-David Low, in an article, " she csateanenend od in War." ‘T HERE are ‘easly more highly educated people in the United States than in any other single country.-H. G. Wells. 4 * * AS to Chinese cleanliness, my initial surprise that they should be so dirty has, after a quarter of a century, changed to surprise that, considering their difficulties, they should be so clean.-Carl Crow. x * * WE opera singers don’t look very well. We would not look nice in close-ups.-Kirsten Flagstad, explaining why opera was not filmed. * * * W/ HATEVER you do in life, don’t lead what is called a regular life-Sir E, Farquhar Buzzard, eminent London physician. * * HERE is nothing more alarming than the universal silence about how the future peace of Europe is to be governed.-Pierre-Etienne Flandin, former Premier of France. * * * ALEGISLATOR is like a man on roller skates; he goes partly where he wishes to go and partly where the skates take him,- Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Arizona, P * _ # W HEN I hear a bit of complaint about some married woman working I do not see an indictment of the sex. What I see is some man or woman without a job striking blindly at what seems an unfair distribution of work and income.-Margaret Culkin Banning. * * NE o’clock is late for anyone to be out in a black-out. Some of the young men who are not in the Army are not behaving themselves as they should.-Alderman Hubert Jenkins. * * * I HAVE spent many hours among painter friends trying to fgad out what art is-and I found that very often it a conglomeration of indefinite words, -Mr. Justice Hawke. * * * WE cannot expect the German people to overthrow Hitler so long as we even fail to get rid of Mr. Chamberlain.-The Tribune,