He Raced The Nazis
On One Leg
N.Z. Geologist in Scandinavia M OST of us would think it a good performance to give the slip to a Nazi patrol if we had both legs to run with, but Dr. Brian Mason (right), who has been appointed Lecturer in Geology at Canterbury University College, achieved this distinction with one leg in plaster. We can’t tell the full story, because we have not Dr. Mason’s permission to do that, but we can say that he was in Norway when the Germans arrived in April, 1940, convalescing from a broken leg, and that he not only outwitted them in the race for the Swedish frontier, but contrived to get himself admitted to the University of Sfockholm, to maintain himself there for three years, and then get out again with a Stockholm degree and a Swedish wife. Now he is back again in New Zealand, a little troubled by the cold of our unheated houses-Mrs. Mason developed her first chilblains in Wellingtonand was quife willing to talk to us when we called on him so long as we did not wish him to tell us things that might prove embarrassing to other people. aS Soe F
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 10
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