SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

OERING is less vindictive than Hitler, but even more brutal and ruthless. If anybody ever tells you, as somebody will before long, that Goering is a Moderate, permit yourself a large sneer.Douglas Reed in "Sunday Graphic." * a x HAVE lived.-Joseph Sieyés, after the Reign off Terror in France, when asked what he had done, x ae as HAT rascally Lord Haw-Haw has achieved success in the first essential of a broadcast propagandist. He has made himself into a Number One Radio Personality. We are such a bunch of sentimentalists that it would not surprise me if this renegade Englishman were offered a music-hall contract after the war. Stephen King-Hall, M.P., in "Sunday Pictorial." * * % LORP BEAVERBROOK is a welsher and a squawk, -General Hugh S. Johnson, America’s recruiting genius of the last war, in his syndicated column, replying to Beaverbrook on war debts. aS % as FRANCE is a meadow that cuts thrice a year-= George Herbert. x % * N°? Prime Minister of England has ever. been more brutally cheated than has Mr. Chamberlain, yet the very extravagance of his misplaced trust only tiveted the stronger on Hitler a conviction which lost him his chance and will, I am sure, in the end be the ruin of him.-Maurice Collis in "Time and Tide." as Ba * INLAND may easily become the grave of Bolshee vism as Belgium was the grave of Kaiserdom.J. A. Sinclair Pooley. * _* % [X comparison of this (France) with other countries we have the proof of primacy which was given to Themistocles after the battle of Salamis. Every general voted himself the first reward for valour, and the second to Themistocles. So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth you would rather live? Certainly in my own . . . Which would be your second choice? France.Thomas Jefferson. * % » ‘THE boy will not be a boxer. The life is too hard, { want to spare him that.-Primo Carnera, when his wife presented him with a son.