TO A GAS MASK
[P put you on the Knowall who hears " confidentially" from H.Q. just what the " Brig" intends to do, and how he'll do it, where and when, with so many guns and tanks, and . men.
’‘D put you on the Aggressive lout, who, in heated argument, will shout such secrets of his country out as "How could the Blankshires be at so-and-so when they sailed for What’s-a-name a day ago?"
I ’D place you on the Humorous one, who cannot see the danger done by Rumours started just for fun, who considers the panic caused worth while, if it but gives him cause to smile.
’D place you on the one eee. drinks go straight upstairs to where ta thinks, so that with nods and digs and winks, he slyly informs all, and sundry, just where the Fleet will be on Monday. -From Middle East Command. ’D place you on all these, and more, all who think after, and not before, they speak words that might lose the war. Yes, I’d work you hard without a doubt, if you could but keep Gas in, as well as out. " Parade," the Weekly Journal of the
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 12
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197TO A GAS MASK New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 12
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