When Ignorance Is Best
WHA Y do we talk about ships and their movements? Is it not because some times some of us desire to show off-to let Mrs. So-and-So know that she is not so up to date with her information as we are, or that. we are very knowledgeable people, really, and are "in the know’’? Some of us take a pride, don’t we, in ferreting out this information and, having got it, passing it on to Mrs. So-and-So, who perhaps, last week, scored one over us because she knew when a certain ship was going out and we didn’t. And so it goes on, and consequently, the information spreads and spreads and is eventually picked up by the enemy. Now, I am sure you will agree with me that this must really stop, and perhaps the best way to achieve this is is to resolve not to talk about ships at all. Let us take a pride in knowing nothing about ships and their movements, rather than knowing everything about them, and be prepared to point out plainly to that person who will talk to us about ships that we don’t want to hear it, and that he.or she as the case may be, is not helping our war effort by talking about ships, and, maybe, helping the enemy. If you would do this you would be taking a personal part in this campaign to stop talking--(Talk to Women from the ZB stations, November 19.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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