ALIENS
Sir,-In his excellent poem, "Alien Ways," Whim Wham has used what is perhaps the best possible weapon against Fascism, With ridicule that is pointed without being barbed, he defends a minority that is being used as a whipping boy, while being fair to a very much misrepresented majority. I know of .no returned serviceman or woman who would support for a moment the degenerate suggestion of the R.S.A. with ree gard to the expulsion of enemy aliens.
M.M.
A.
(York Bay).
Sir,-I thank you for the insertion in your issue of July 6 of "Alien Ways," by Whim Wham. It is noteworthy. The line "for those self-guaranted as fit, to govern and inhabit it" is a fitting rebuke to autocrats-especially military ones! To lovers of freedom this poem should have a permanent place in the mind. The author has used the ablest weapon of the polemic, wit mingled with sarcasm with, dignified effect. WILLIAM ADAMS (Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 5
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