LISTENINGS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 5

LISTENINGS

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KEN

ALEXANDER

a BRITISH broadcaster asserts that A the decision of Japan to jip-in resulted from an erroneous belief that Hitler was taking the rush out of Russia. Only after she had tossed tthe tocsin did she discover that her ally was alloy, incapable of matching Stalin’s steel. Then it was a case of " Think quick, Mr, Moto!’ Mr. Moto thought "of the quick and the dead it is the dead who are not quite quick." So he beat all-comers to the draw and just missed scoring a "bull." When Hitler comes a thud on the Russian skating rink Mr. Moto will take a tumble to the fact that a near "bull" is a " cow,"

Everyone knows that if Hitler is left low and wet in the Soviet, Japan will be left high and dry in the Pacific. It has probably dawned on Mr. Moto (see rising sun) that what he took for chess is a chestnut-and he the "nut," tricked by

a!) a eee a Ae, LS. . Se em 6h Hitler to pull the Nazi chestnut out of the Pacific fire. He will finally be done browner than the nut. In years to come an old chestnut will be " When is a Jap not a Jap," and the answer: A very keen chap was the Jap; He flung himself in cock-o-hoop; He reckoned that Prussia Was winning in Russia, But found that the Jap was a jupe. It’s O-Kato with us, Mr. Moto, if you will fiddle while Berlin busts; but a onestring fiddle can hardly last the distance against an all-out orchestra.