SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 33, 9 February 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

CONSERVATIVE is a man with two perfectly A good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward. But a liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.-President Roosevelt's definition in a recent broadcast. * * * ]™ is one thing for Nazi Germany to break the power and resistance of nations very much smaller than itself. It is another thing for it to be engaged in a struggle with great Powers.Herbert Morrison, M.P. *K * we ITLER is in the same situation as a castaway shivering on a rock in the midst of a stormy sea. If he stays where he is, the rising tide — in his case, of discontent and Communism within his own country — will drown him; yet he recoils from the alternative of a struggle with the constantly mounting waves.-G. Ward Price in the " Daily Mail." Be % a TRANGE to tell, the obstructions which have taken greatest toll are those placed there for our peace-time security — the lamp-post and the kerb. That silent, blind sentinel, the lamp-post, seems literally to step from its fixing and maliciously crack the passer-by over the eye or the nose — its favourite tatgets--A doctor writing on "black-out" injuries. : * * Es "THERE are many things to prop up and reinforce our fondness for existence . .. a walk and the appetite it creates, a book, the doing of a goodnatured or friendly action, are satisfactions that hold out to the last-William Hazlitt. * 1 * WHat is our dominating aim in prosecuting the war? We say we want to destroy the sin of Hitlerism, and it is a sin, with all its outrages, its violences, iniquities, and blasphemy. But do we want to save Hitler from his sins? Do you ever bother about that? God does.-Rev. Leyton Richards, * %* * yobs nations bound and fettered by the censorships of war there must be maintained somewhere upon the earth nations, even a nation, where thought and speech are still free, or truth will be lost from the earth.-Pearl Buck.