A Touch of the Sun
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[An approaching heat-wave caused by sun-spots is likely to produce ideal weather for an invasion of Europe, according to forecasts, Weather authori- ‘ ties say that meteorological observations show that a new sunspot minimum is on the way. Never since reliable records were first taken has this phase of a sunspot cycle failed to give something outstanding in the way of summer heat-waves.-Cable News Item.] HOPE it will be fine for the Invasion, Warm, sunny, Weather for the great Attack, Supposing it should rain on that Occasion! They'd have to call the Expedition back. However great our Power and our Potential, We’d have to stop and have another ry: In storming Continents it’s most essential ' To keep your Army and its Powder dry. I hope the Sunspot Cycle is propitious; A Heat-wave is the Weather we require, The happy blendings of the Adventitious With well-laid Plans and well-directed Fire. A hopeful View-and yet I have a Feeling > That watching for a Heat-wave isn’t quite The Strategy our Leaders are concealing From very nearly Everybody’s Sight. I also feel, each Morning almost, reading Ot How and when the Axis will be stormed, ; That there is very little Use in heeding The frantic Guesses of the Uninformed. There may be Heat-waves or there may be Brain-waves Or any other Sort of Wave you like; Hitler may be defeated by insane Waves Of public Panic sweeping through the Reich. Do Sunspots figure in our Preparations For Knock-out Blows? It rather seems to me That there are somewhat plainer Indications Of big Events in Nineteen-Forty-Three!l
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 209, 25 June 1943, Page 2
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267A Touch of the Sun New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 209, 25 June 1943, Page 2
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