SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HE best thing that the war can do for us is to inspire us, with an irresistible desire for better things.-Lord Elton, * % * NCE, in Florence, where so many of the Island Race have retired from time to time, having left the Motherland by reason of a roving nature, or at the request of the Motherland's police, we met a British resident who, though England was fighting for her very life against Australia, expressed no interest whatsoever in the daily score or batting averages. -D. B. Wyndham Lewis. * % % UR propaganda, even to our own people, has been hopelessly inadequate.-Lord Snell, % * x OTAL war must be waged by total means,-Mr, Hore-Belisha. %* * * T cannot be a sound peace if small nations live in fear of powerful neighbours.-President Roosevelt. * * % Y and large, it costs at least a fiver to feed and water a Glamour Girl for one evening; whereas, for about four-and-a-kick one can regale the average. country maiden almost to bursting point-and stand her a seat at the movies.-K. R. G. Browne. aes * * HE day is perhaps coming when the public schools may feel that they would like to share with other classes the tremendous benefits that they have to bestow.-Lord de la Warr. * # * ARS are won by anticipating events, not by waiting on them.-Eric-Mactaydeén. * * * HE celebrated Beau Brummell died at Caen, in Normandy, on the 30th ult., at the age of sixtytwo. He had been long in distressed circumstances, living on the charity of friends, and latterly had been confined in a madhouse.-Extract from "The Observer," London, April 12, 1840. Naa * * HIS war is part of the eternal struggle between right and wrong.-Lord Halifax. * * * E would indeed be a decadent nation if we cared more for peace than for justice and free-dom.-Sir Nevile Henderson, % * * "THE average woman has no idea of what suits her. ‘"- -Sir W. Gilbey.