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DOLF recently sent a message to Mussolini, saying, "My thoughts are always with you." It might have sounded better in verse: Dear Muss, don't cuss if things go wrong! You know your system’s not too strong; Hitch up your pants, breathe deep and fast, For every breath may be your lIast. I'm with you while the Axis spinsIf it should stop we lose our skins. I’ve got you-land and sea and airYour country’s in my loving care; My. hold’s as strong as it can be, Of course my thoughts are all of thee. Don’t worry, Muss! It’s do or die! We'll hang together-you and I. The Japs are seeking the field in China from which the American eagles took off to bomb Tokio. But the probability is that all they’ll find in the Eagle’s nest will be china eggs. Hitler has discovered that his intuition was not sufficient to beat the Russians and has called his generals in again. His intuition was deficient in tuition, ae . —
The Russians state that their policy is to bleed the German Army. "Blood and Iron" is the slogan of the Boche. The Russians don’t mind losing the iron so long as the Germans lose the blood. It is said that agriculture has failed in Gefmany this year. Evidently agriculture is more difficult to inculcate than Nazi culture. Unlike the German people the potatoes have eyes and the wheat has ears.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 12
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243LISTENINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 12
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