LISTENINGS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 12

LISTENINGS

Perpetrated and illustrated by

KEN

ALEXANDER

TRAWS show which way the wind blows. It must be blowing haystacks in Germany. The people seem to be rebelling against Nazi "justice." So Adolf has declared that from now on he will manipulate justice personally. Up, the gang! He isn’t going to let fair play interfere with justice any more, As supreme Law Lord of the Reich, he will see that everybody gets what’s coming to him-with a machinegun. "Let’s spray!" says the gang.

It’s clear that the Big Stoush is approaching a decisive stage in Russia. But the enemy is not very, very happy. He is suffering twinges in the solar per-

plexus. The Russians have all the confidence of the fellow in his corner who knows that he still has a bevy of bodyblows tucked away in his gloves. \Germany’s gloves are not by any means empty, but the stuffing is showing through the holes. Meanwhile, Britain is filling up the pause with a hail of Reich-rattlers from above and a sprinkling of commando © confidence-shakers down below. The show is working up to the stage where it’s "knock out or get out!" In the East, Tojo isn’t making the pace as nippy as Nippon expected. American eagle eggs have rather upset his Diet, But he is hitting sufficiently hard to worry the Allies. Still, Uncle Sam packs a mean left when he gets it swinging. There will be a lot of fur flying before it’s all over, but the decision is in Democracy’s glove. And, when the Axis hits the canvas for keeps, the thud will be the sweetest music ever heard in the halls of Decency. sar ae here's to Right’s "left!"