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HEN I hear the word "culture," I slip back the safety-catch of my revolver.-Hans Johst, President of the German Poets’ Academy. % * * [TURING the last war with Germany, in July, 1915, the following appeared in the personal column of The Times: "Jack F.G.-If you are not in khaki by the 20th I shall cut you dead." The Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette was so much struck by this threat that he telegraphed his version of it thus: "If you are not in khaki by the 20th I shall hack you to death."-British Australian and New Zealander. * * * "THE British, because they believe in the power of words, are not afraid of them. The Nazis do not respect words. They are terrified of the magic properties they themselves have assigned to them.New York Herald-Tribune. * % %* ERMANY is enjoying unheard of prosperity under the Third Reich. Not a hair of a Jew’s head has been touched. Uncle Moritz, who expressed a contrary opinion, has just been buried.-German fable about a Jew who wrote thus to relatives abroad. * * * N the case of Goethe we also find that he loved the blondes the most deeply.-Der Blonde Mensch. * % * [== America do what she will about the war, but for God’s sake don’t let her have anything to do with the peace, Last time she left us with a large baby called the League of Nations; now she is busily engaged in dressing up its poor little corpse and calling it Federal Union.-A. P. Herbert, M.P. * * * WwW don’t ask anything of you that we, the leaders, are unwilling to bear ourselves. Too much fat creates big bellies. I have been eating less butter and have reduced twenty pounds.-Hermann Goering. * * %* "THE system of thought and life in the German state and its ambiguous associate-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-are systems intrinsically hostile to the Christian doctrine-Archbishop of York at % * WE are not out against the hundred and one kinds of Christianity, but against Christianity itself. All people who profess creeds are smugglers in foreign coin, and traitors to the people. Evén those Christians who really want to serve the peopleand there are such-will have to suppressed.--Der Fuehrer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 7
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