Good Night!
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WHIM-WHAM
~ [Every day the official communiques ladle out soothing syrup" said W. M. Hughes in an address in Sydney. "Every day the people must be given their daily hope. Every day they must be told that we are winning. If they are not, says the official mind, they will not sleep happily. Every retreat is a masterpiece of military strategy conceived by British genius . . ."’ Cable news item.] BY sedative Communiques May I be soothed, And gently by the BBC My Pillow smoothed. O LET no disconcerting Fact Draw grimly nigh, While Well-informed Observers sing Their Lullaby. OF ugly Truth, if come you must, Come so delayed That no-one ever has to call A Spade a Spade! Oo» gently, gently break the News Should it be bad, Because I haven’t much Morale When I am sad. Witz well-upholstered Sentences Let Those who know Banish my Doubts and calm my Fears, Making each Blow A PLAYFUL Dig, a friendly Slap, Or light Caress, Concluding always on a Note Of Cheerfulness, TILL Everything is Something that Brings Victory, And Nothing’s but what It ought to bel OFFICIAL Anaesthetist, de
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 8
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189Good Night! New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 8
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