SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

ITTERBUG dancing may be enjoyed by youngJ sters, but it is neither graceful nor beautiful; certainly not dignified for people past their ‘teens.-/rene Castle. ok * * a Chinese invented gunpowder, yet they have probably been shot in the pants more than any other people in the world. — Editorial in " The Washinglon Post." * * * "M ORE passengers to be allowed to stand: Cone cession made by Minister of Transport,"Birmingham Post. VEN though Hitler may think he is master of the world he has met his match. Séoner. or later Stalin will win out, and in turn betray. him, There is no possible doubt that the real enemy of Russia, whether Tsarist or Bolshevik, is Greater Germany.-Madame Tabouis in the "New Republic," U.S.A. | ES * % 6 ae peace of Europe demands not the liberation of Germany from a particular regime, or a particular man, but the liberation of the GERMANIES from the domination of Prussia.-Sisley Huddleston in the " Weekly Review." * * * oo were childlike people, these peasants, and it used to amuse me to hear the Agricultural Expert talk over his day’s work: "I teach them new methods," he would say, "and I come back in six weeks and I find they’ve gone back to their old ways. So I teach them again. Some I’ve been teaching for ten years, but lesson one is as far ag Wwe get."-From a BRC talk by Philip Knowling, "Home Life in Bessarabia." (i propaganda is making, through neutral channels, the very curious suggestion that Hitler has deliberately sacrificed the Baltic States to Russia in order to warn the West that it has now to face the Red Peril. Unless England and France make peace promptly, the idea is, Communism will be on the march-New Statesman and Nation, . * cS Sheer policy of the U.S.S.R. is based on the prine ciple of justice and the defence of small nations-Jzvestia (official Russian newspaper).