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Sir,-"Beware! I may sing." The recent article on war songs shows the British to be inexpert braggarts. It is not _their metier, Wickham Steed was approached recently on this matter by outsiders, puzzled that the British Home Front should be so undemonstrative while their troops were enacting wonders that caused the Germans to acclaim them the finest fighters in the world, our valiant Russian friends not excepted. In a recent talk, McDonald Hastings gave the text of the song "Don’t Let’s be Beastly to the Germans." The joke (if any), was that while the BBC was putting Noel Coward’s; classic over the air, J. B. Priestley was telling the world that it was not the German people who were responsible for the war, but another crowd with the same name.
E. A. W.
SMITH
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 225, 15 October 1943, Page 3
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137CAVE CANEM New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 225, 15 October 1943, Page 3
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