Dry Rations
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WHIM-WHAM
. {An order stopping all beer consumption throughout the Reich from March 15 is the severest blow of the war thus far for German civilians, says Reuter’s Zurich _ correspondent.- Cable news item,] BEERLESS Reich! Oh cheerless Days In Prospect for the German Nation! How will the Fuehrer’s Children bear This last, most terrible privation, Denied the Simple Solace now Of Beer’s benign’ Intoxication? ITLER, who does not drink at all, Quite clearly could not be expected To realise what he has done, And how must be affected. How should he know how being dry Can make a normal Man dejected? O#: Total War may sink a State To Rack and Ruin- Nothing faster- — : And probably it’s true enough That in those States where Force is aster, From Total to Teetotal War Is one more Stride towards Disaster. BEN it was Guns instead of Butter No Doubt it All appeared worth doing. Oh, wretched Reich! Did None Foresee The dismal Sequel now ee The Glass unfilled, the No Beer, but only Trouble Ping
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 194, 12 March 1943, Page 10
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175Dry Rations New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 194, 12 March 1943, Page 10
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