Current Fiction

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 207, 11 June 1943, Page 2

Current Fiction

By

WHIM-WHAM

{The repulping of "Mein Kampf" and other Nazi works, and their use to reprint books the Nazis have destroyed in the occupied countries, is recommended in British proposals on postwar education which, with American proposals on the same subject, have been published by ithe American Council on Public -Cable news item New York]. peeies Justice may require That Hitler's one _ Best-seller should Be pulped in All its Millions, and Its Evil processed into Good; More practical than Burning, this Would have the Merit of supplying Paper for printing other Books egarded as more edifying, A PRETTY Thought, of course, for Those Whose Minds are set on Retribution, But one that cooler Heads would shrink From putting into Execution. How many tedious Books have been Sought eagerly and read with Zest, Merely because well-meaning Fools Proposed that they should be suppressed! EIN KAMPF," the _ Fuehrer’s Masterpiece, Is not so great that One is led To think its Readers won him PowerHe used his Power to get it read. "My Struggle’ very well describes The Effort and the seeming Ages Of Boredom faced by Anyone Who wrestles with those — Pages! I HAVE the Volume on my Shelf, The full unexpurgated Fuehrer. I will not have it pul because I feel the World " pe the poorer Without this Sample the Sort Of Doctrine Men are prone to follow: There’s no Insurance against Lies That one Man tells and Millions swallow.