SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 54, 5 July 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HILE our counter-attack was in committee, the Germans were flying troops to their military objectives at 200 miles an hour, -Commander Stephen King-Hall, in May. %* * * AM more afraid of our politicians, with their talent for rescuing Hitler from his mistakes, than I am of Hitler-Douglas Reed, in May. * * * ITLER is not something distinct from the German nation; he is the direct expression of a great part of it-Anthony Eden, in May. * * * TRUST that no woman will be allowed ‘to minister in Church-Lord Hugh Cecil. * * * HOPE we may be able to devise some means whereby undesirable shows can be preyvented.The Lord Chamberlain. * * * HE length to which nudity has been permitted to go on our stage appalls and embarrasses me.Sir Seymour Hicks. 3 * * ES HE average woman has no idea what suits her.Sir Walter Gilbey. * * * E produce about the worst cooks in the worldCol. H. A. Reed. * * * E found that out afterwards, by the way, that we'd crossed a minefield, by mistake--Harry Watt, after being mistakenly arrested as a spy while taking sea pictures for the G.P.O. film unit. * * 1 AN’S unique facility for adapting himself to the most rigorous and bizarre conditions was never better illustrated than in Europe at this moment.Bernard Portal in "Current History." * * % HE American people do not understand what this war is all about.-U.S. Ambassador to England, Joseph Kennedy. % * * O the Fuehrer, von Ribbentrop seems a muchtravelled man of the world. Bismarck would have set his Great Dane at him-J. B. Firth in London "Daily Telegraph." * * * EMBERS of the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service will show their pink forms whenever called upon to do so.-Army Order, B.E.F.