SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

PPPEOLPIPPPPLP LPP HEN I leave the sea I shall take a pair of oars and then I shall journey forth. And when one-asks me what it is that I carry, I shall go no further, but there I shall make my home. -Homer, 1,000 B.C. * * * HEN I leave the blinkin’ sea, Bill, I'm going to go off with a pair of oars. And the first place where they says "What’s that you got there?" that’s where I’m settling down.-Popular Magazine. * * x AN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he alone can perceive the distinction between things as they are and things as they ought to be.-Hazlitt. ES * * R. CHURCHILL uses humour, as he does so many things, in masterly fashion. He has, to perfection, the art of mixed bowling. In that tremendous series of speeches he delivered in the three years before the war, insisting on the wicked intentions of Germany, imploring Britain to wake and defend herself, dealing greatly with great occasions, his wit, his impish fun, were employed with brilliant strategical effect-A. P. Herbert, M.P. x * % WAS a big success in the last war (I was in Paris when the first shot was fired, and wher the second shot was fired I was in London). The fastest runner-in the world was in our regiment; he nearly caught up with me once.-Tex McLeod, humorist. * * * HE dropping of pamphlets by British and French airmen behind the German lines is not new. In October, 1918, about 5,000,000 pamphlets were dropped over Germany. either 3 Watchman," Australian commentator. x * By HO-IS-IT riddle from a convert German student publication: He wears a French moustache, combs his hair American style, salutes Roman, has a Czech accent, was born in Austria, is a foreigner, and out-Germans the worst Germans for jingoism.-= "Time,’ New York. ; # * * : [E Englishman will fight like hell, not when his worst instincts are appealed to, but when his noblest aspirations are called into being.-Major = Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P,