SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

SMALL country solicitor in the north-east once explained to me the wealth of the land. "In this small place of two thousand people," he said, "there are perhaps twenty millionaires (please note, in francs). And if you were to take their money away from them," he said, "their lives would not be chafiged at all, They would eat the same things from their land, dress in the same clothes, and do the same work with their cows and horses, Their money is a reserve, Their real wealth is in things: grass, pigs, houses.""-From an article on France in "The Listener" (London), by Denis Saurat. * a ba F UNDAMENTALLY, French peasants do not want to be administered. They resent government. They think it a disguised tyranny; they can run themselves. They want to be left alone, In this perhaps they are more like the Scottish than the English people-From the same article. * * * P ARLIAMENT is sometimes called "The Talking Shop." Well, it is the forum of a nation whose every citizen is putting not only patriotism but brains into the job. They need no Fuehrer; they speak for themselves-W. Wedgwood Benn, M.P. * * .* ATRIOTISM is a lively sense of collective security. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.-Richard Aldington. x % * ATRIOTISM is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. — Edith Cavell. * * pr "THE house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress.--Sir Edward Coke. * bag Eo SINGLE Blenheim bomber can now be assembled from 40,000 parts, besides nuts, tolts and rivets, in one week at a new British factory.Australian broadcaster. Ea a bd TTOWARDS the end of the eighteenth century the German philosopher, Kant, complained that the English wer@ an unscrupulous race of militarists. In the middle of the seventeenth century the Tsar Alexia forbade the entry of Englishmen into Russia because they were dangerous revolutionaries.-Prof, A. Boyce Gibson in an Australian broadcast, " Are Foreigners Different?"