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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 41, 5 April 1940, Page 6

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OLLOWING the example of the American straw votes, citizens of the Reich were asked: Are you satisfied with the Nazi régime? Only one replied "No "-a thirty-four-year-old Berlin man who leaves a widow and two children. * * * ET’S be fair. Germany is really anxious to keep the piece. * * BLACK and white artists are joining the colours. * * * HE football ‘habit is difficult to shed. A London newsboy was heard shouting, " European War — Results." a ok % ]F silence is golden the Ministry of Information must be making a mint of money. x * * ACCORDING to a report which reaches us, the crews of German submarines are now disguised in breaches of neutrality. * * * "T 2E enemy attacked vigorously, but each effort was repulsed with great laughter.’-Evening paper from England. * * * SPAIN has a railway strike. Happy the country where trouble still takes place on normal lines. x * % WE seem to have read somewhere that every woman can keep a secret-in circulation. * i ox * AN M.P. says that profiteers will get what is coming to them. It will be too late when they have got what was coming to us. % * * GENERAL Boast Office-Berlin. x * x $*{ NEVER eat a snail," said O. Henry, "unless it bites me first." * * Ee N S.S. man took leave of a friend in a Berlin cafe. " Au revoir," he said. . . Another S.S. man overheard him. "What do you mean by saying au revoir?" "I said au revoir," was the reply, " because I hope to see my friend again. But as for you, Heil Hitler-I don’t care whether I see you again or not." * * * "THE Frankfurter Zeitung points out that Hert Hitler received three motor car loads of presents on his last birthday. The real test will be what he gets on his next.