SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 40, 29 March 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

AN can never be sure enongh of his thoughts to swegr fiielity to such and such a system which for the time he regards as true. All that he can do is to devote himself to the service of the truth, whatever it may be, and dispose his heart to follow it whenever he believes that he can see it, at no matter how great a sacrifice-Ernest Renan. * %* * Tt Napoleonic counter-blockade of England very nearly succeeded, and ultimately failed because Napoleon blundered and lost the fruit of his great victories by embarking on the Russian campaign,Weekly Review. Es * % it is generally more difficult to prevent men from believing than to make them believe. — Ernest Renan. Ba By Ba Wy tt one or two lucid intervals, the Prussian Government’s policy towards Poland was a policy of ruthless expropriation. Hitler’s barbarous treatment of Poland to-day is nothing new in German history, He has borrowed all his ideas from his predecessors, but not their comparative moderation.J. H. Morgan, K.C. % bd oe WEALTH is to be esteemed neither above nor below its true worth; it is a good servant and a bad master.-Alexander Dumas fils. * Es Ba OPERA singers are children--Manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. * % % "TOLERANCE is a vastly difficult virtue; for some of us, indeed, more difficult than heroism. Our first impulse-and often our second-is to hate those who do not think as we do. Difference of opinion has in the past led to more massacres, and can lead to more trouble and misfortune, than difference of interest.-Jules Lemaitre. * ee % HE instructive and warning shorts in the Berlin cinema are almost amusing in their dreadful similarity. A stupid-looking man or woman is always at the point of doing something wrong when the omnipresent smooth agent in a brown uniform steps up and belabours’ the offender in icy tones, to. the confusion of the culprit and the audience. The latest showed an old woman about to throw bread crumbs to some swans in the park, but the agent appeared in the nick of time and saved the crumbs-William D. Bayles, Berlin correspondent of " Life."