LISTENINGS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 8

LISTENINGS

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FEW atmospherics from the World Programme: Batan-the place where the Japanese suffered victory and the Americans won a glorious defeat. From the Soviet spokesman, M. Lozovsky: ", .. One thing was certainGermany would be defeated this year." Well, the Russians are in a better position to know this than any one elseexcept, perhaps, the Germans. Russia says that she now has as many tanks for the spring as the Germans. That sounds like good shooting. Tanks a million, M. Stalin! But the real point is-who will have the most tanks after the spring? The question will be decided by a Bear majority. The Japs thought Ceylon produced only tea. But when they called, they discovered quite a lot of T.N.T. There is some suspicion that the United Nations are contemplating a second front against Germany. But this shouldn’t worry Hitler. He has spent all his life fronting two ways. Taking it all round, the news has been pretty dark lately. But Britain elways seems to see better in the dark, It was dark in 1918,

Mother India seems to be celebrating Mother's Day. The Case for India: To get what she wants from Britain while not getting more than she wants from Japan. It is reported that Japanese soldiers can fight on a handful of Reich. Later on, they may have to battle on with. only powdered Reich for support. The Aussies are knocking the Japs to leg at Rabaul. But they don’t wait to bring home the Ashes. They’re training them as tough guerilla troops in Australia. You need guerillas to counter jungle monkeytricks. New Zealand might do well to ape the guerilla plan.