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VENTS move so fast these days that they have to be practically sniped in flight. Now that General Wavell is on the job, he can be trusted to give the Pacific Ju-jitzuers a spot of ju-jitters, The A.LF. presents an LO.U. The Japs will have to pay P.D.Q. Japan is after fuel; the Unsentimental Blokes will give her the "dinkum oil." The Japs are looking for it in the Netherlands East Indies; they will be "in Dutch" before they get it.
Australia’s Federal Prime Minister gave Whitehall a Curtin lecture; after which he declared that "the show must go on." Here is one Curtin that doesn’t obscure the light when drawn. An important section of British opinion deplores the past muddlement in Malaya. The Antipodes has said comparatively little-but, oh those thoughts! American submarines have sunk Japanese transports off Formosa to prove that they can nip in on Nippon. The Russians are dealing the Boche more hammer blows; they are using the sickle to cut off his retreat. The Nazi Field Marshal Reichenau is said to have died of a stroke after being bawled out by Hitler; one of those Gestapoplectic strokes! The German. public are told on this year’s anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power that they need not hang out flags. They can save the bunting for when he is bumped off, Winston Churchill flew home from America. Democratic leaders fly; dice tators take to flight. There’s a differ ence, The Russians aré still taking things as they come. Hitler is going strong.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 9
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