SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

ICH is permanent — Dictatorship of \X) Democracy? Which will stand the final test? Neville Chamberlain, arriving yesterday at a wartime lunch to reply to Hitler, had, as a guard, merely the detective who walks behind him in case some lunatic tries to pinch his gamp. I could have walked out in the middle, and if I had shouted "Rats," no one would have clubbed me, on the head.-Hannen Swaffer. % * * E are astounded to learn that Great Britain is spending £200,000 an hour to carry on the war. Why, that is £8,000 more than it costs this country,to carry on the peace!-New Yorker. % * * ERSAILLES: is Hitler's stock-in-trade. If it didn’t exist, he would have to invent it. It is the only excuse he can offer the German people for the immense hardships this war will bring them, -New York Times. * * * YY OMEN can do the work. They proved that in the last war. What is more important is the fact that in modern aeroplane production they have demonstrated an amazing aptitude for learning to do skilled work.-Beverley Baxter, M.P. * * % WE want sympathy — not symphony. — B.E.F. men to the BBC Director-General. * * * €5ERMANY will pull the Graf Spee on us in this war if Hitler has his way. If Nazism cannot have its own way, it destroys; if it cannot destroy, it destroys itselfi-Rev. Ewart Edmund Turner. % * * WEST END actors’ feuds are not wWinteresting, The boys generally give a good, sound performance, rolling wild, stricken eyes at the mention of the rival’s name and beating haggard brows, groaning and staggering to and fro, utterly broken and distraught. Applause is, oddly enough, coldly received on such occasions.-D. B. Wyndham Lewis in "The Bystander." * * * A NATIVE girl teacher of the Pacific Islands who thought herself underpaid, and who certainly found the attentions of the head teacher unwanted, resigned thus: "I go because my works are many, and my salaries are few. Above also, my superior official makes to. me many lovings, to which I am replying only, Oh Not! Oh Not! So I am no more your obedient servant.""--From "The Humours of Translation,’ by an Australian broadcaster.