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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 6

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HE report that, in response to the Carnegie Institute offer, Frank ("Bring "Em Back Alive") Buck has landed in New York with thirteen © Hitlers in tow must be treated with some reserve. % * Pe PROM England comes a report that the blackout has resulted in greater temperance among motorists. They are no longer worried about how many gallons they can do to the mile. * * 1 Wun THE CONQUEROR couldn't write, and thus is gratefully remembered as one of the generals who didn’t publish their War Memoirs. * * * "${ORD HAW-HAW tickles ’em to death." More Nazi barbarities? * a Pa USSIA’S attitude to the war is described as neither offensive nor defensive. Sitting-on-the-fencive? Ea * * WRITER points out that fewer servants sleep on the premises nowadays. Living in is dying out. * > * * J N spite of the increased tax, the consumption of ale in England shows no signs of falling off. Britons continue to beer up under the strain. * * * ITLER is a man of few words — but he uses them a lot. Fa "2 * AN Amsterdam tradesman has a portion of a huge cheese that he acquired in 1900. They’ve been together now for forty years, and he’s proud of his dear old Dutch. % * * NEW hat, we read, is shaped like an inverted flower-pot. Flower-pots continue to be made like inverted new hats. % * * A FOMMERTATOR says that the only stationary thing about the map of the world is the equator. And that’s an imaginary line! * eee % O German propagandists we recommend the following advertisement from an English county paper: "Wanted-Strong youths for sausages. Must" be clean and willing." % * * $*T N the matter of rail and bus transport in wartime," asks a contemporary, "where does the public stand?" On its poor old tired feet, as usual.