SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

EFORE they had time to thank Captain Dahl for his kindness and generosity, the prisoners on the Altmark were brutally rushed away by the British Navy.-Lord Haw-Haw. * * * J CAN see nothing wrong in a girl kissing a soldier, any more than kissing a civilian, I don’t think it is any different from kissing a policeman, and even a parson.-Bishop Guy Warman, of Manchester. % * * ] CANNOT forgive Hamlet for his caddish behaviour to Ophelia--Ex-Dean Inge. * * * Coa to see Field-Marshal Goering in the flesh and never to be able to draw himthat would be something worth grumbling about.Caricaturist Osbert Lancaster. Bd a By E VERY politician has one hero beside himself.Beverley Baxter, M.P. * % % se HE majority of our soldiers do not know what they are fighting for-Moscow Radio. * % x l FEEL so naked without my lipstick. — Evelyn Laye. % * %* HE first major casualty of the war has been the national system of education.-Lord Addison. as ae bs ] SHALL never count myself 100 per cent. woman until I have experienced the supreme and Ultimate emotional satisfaction of slapping a man’s face. -Cecile Lavigne in the "Daily Mail," London. * * % E Germans are, taking it all in ali, incredibly harmless people.-Danziger Vorppsten. * Ee * I HAD many schemes for my life when I was Prime Minister, but I never envisaged for myself what in fact I have become — just a beggar for money.-Lord Baldwin, appealing for the Church Army. % * * ws I F Egypt is Middle East, where is the Near East? You cannot have a Middle without something on each side of jt-Major-General Lord Ruthven. * * BS R OBINSON, we know you! You are no harmless adventurer to amuse our youth, but a book which will teach them how Britons have throughout the ages enmeshed, enticed, and finally enslaved for all time the peoples of the world. Robinson Crusoe, you are a Briton!-Danziger Vorposten.