SHAKESPEARE.
The extent to which Shakespeare lives in the minds of the German people was suggested in war stories told at a recent Toe H meeting. Here are two instances. Two padres, one English the other German, were talking of the "war. The German asked: "What are we lighting for'/ (We both love the same things. We have nothing to fight for. We love the same men —Mozart, Beethoven, and Shakespeare." Two soldiers were lying wounded in the same deep shell hole, an Englishman and a German. The Englishman, said:"Well, what 'are we going to do now ? If you come with me you will be made a prisoner; and if I go with yon I shall be made a prisoner."' "That is so," said the German. "Where do you keep your prisoners?" "Oh, out in the country," said the Englishman, "Then, comrade," said the German, "I'll bo the prisoner. I've been a prisoner up till now in a German slum, and now I'll change to lovely England." Then, as they began to make their way painfully toward the British line, he added: "I can trust you- English to treat me fairly, for I've read your Shakespeare."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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