Analysis
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WHIM-WHAM
love to be an Analyst, An eminent News Analyst, A world-accepted Oracle That None dare disbelieve. Oh, I would give the Facts a Twist That Everyone but Me had missed, I’d show how Figures falsity And Documents deceive. Shaye sort their Propagunda out And blow their Propaganda out, I’d snatch a Rabbit from the Hat With "It can be revealed." I’d take a month to end the War, Then stretch it out ten Years or MoreI’d carry far more Guns than All The Armies in the Field! FM any Front were really quiet I’d never dream of keeping quiet, I’d back each possibility My Motto, "Win and Place’’: The less informative the News The More I’d ventilate my ViewsOh the Developments I’d watch, The Tendencies I’d trace! ND Id be cool and critical At Stages really critical: I’d see the true Significance Of Everything in Sight; While Those for whom I'd analyse I’m certain would not recognise, Observing me so seldom wrong, How rarely I'd be right! [A selection of verses written by Whim-Wham during 1941 and 1942 has been published by the Caxton Press, Christchurch, and is on sale at 3/-. The selection has been made by the author himself, and this volume is therefore im-Wham at his best].
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 8
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213Analysis New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 8
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