Kiwi Among Germans
PENNY has a head and tail. You either take both or you go without your penny altogether. In the same way you either have to take or leave Captive Kiwi, whose power to entertain springs from a surprisingly young outlook. The amazing life the narrator gives to typical Kiwi language springs from a Gulliver-in-Lilliput view of himself among the slow "stereotyped" Germans. I never would have believed you could lay so much on with a trowel and get away with it, yet each 3ZB session invariably finds me chuckling at the enemy up against the antics of P.O.W.'s whose chief occupation lay in exasperating their guards. Mr. Thompson has done, nevertheless, one disservice to his cause by wishing to show us the Germans in such a clottish light. I have come to have a profound respect for their restraint. As each instalment develops I expect to find him shot before it ends. The only thing which equals this feeling is the respect I have for Mr. Thompson’s courage and endurance in the face of experiences which would have killed many other fen.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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186Kiwi Among Germans New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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