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FINE: "To Live in Peace." MAINLY FAIR: "City Across the River." DULL: "The Bribe."
(continued from previous page) takes effect. The German falls asleep on the cobbles and the negro, more hardheaded, sobers up and takes to the hills. The villagers, fearful of what the German may remeraber when he wakes, take to the hills as well. In the morning Uncle Tigna goes down into the village alone to reconnoitre. As he stands outside his own gate a German motor-cycle detachment roars up the street, They pitch a can of petrol into the post office and follow it with a grenade, drop Uncle Tigna with a casual tommy-gun burst and roar off again. And so Uncle Tigna returns whence he came. Even in his last agony he does not lose either tolerance or humility. So many poor people die far from home, while he has his family around him. What has he to complain of? For him death is no more a mystery than birth, and all flesh is as grass. There may be wars and rumours of wars, but seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 20
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