SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

= going to do what Knut Hamsun did, disappear for two weeks in a _ bottle-Frans Sillanpaa, Finnish author, on learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. » * * Lyte have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant.Fritz Kuhn, German-American Bundsfuehrer, on trial. ES * * W/ HEN I became an American citizen they told me my vote was sacred-and for that reason I don’t want to tell how I voted.-Marlene Dietrich, after casting her first vote as a U.S. citizen in Cali« fornia recently, * a * OF course I am interested in murder, but only as a human activity-Mrs, Belloc Lowndes, British novelist. * * * 4 HE trouble with most light novels is, they aren't light enough. They neglect their irre sponsibilities-Charles Poore, "New York Times" book-reviewer. * * * I GET quite a kick out of knotting string -William B, Bankhead. * * * [Ts a childlike impulse to watch a sign painter at work or a man making sand images at the beach.-Will Johnstone, American cartoonist. * * " WE shall not be able to enjoy ourselves until Franco’s widow tells Stalin on his deathbed that Hitler has been assassinated at Mussolini’s funeral.-Vernon Bartlett, Member of Parliament. * * CHIANG KAI-SHEK does not like people in the abstract-or even the particular-John Gunther. * s * I BELIEVE an obligation assumed is to be met, and that regardless of whether it is owned by an individual, organisation or nation,-American Vice-President Garner. * * UROPE is like an artichoke, The Nazis are eating it leaf by leaf. France and Britain are the heart of @he artichoke to be eaten later.Harold J. Laski, professor of political science at London University. * " e e % HE haggard spokesman for a caravan of starve ing farmers blurted out: "We're living like hogs-except hogs get food."---Richard L. Neuberger, in an article on the American waste-lands,