GERMAN HUMOUR

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22636, 15 February 1939, Page 17

GERMAN HUMOUR

TO THX IDITOB Or THK PEESS Sir, —The other day the students of London University staged a “rag,” guying the anti-French demands of “Benito the Brawler.” They called, among other things, for the return of America to Britain, and the return of Peru to Spain. That didn’t appear to cause any riots in .Washington; and

not one American editor replied by ' 1 demanding the immediate annexation of Canada. But, although the United States remained calm In the face of this dastardly threat, our Teutonic cousins decided to put the London University students in their proper place. The “Hamburger Fremdenblatt” let itself go right and left, with a homily headed, “A Bad Joke.” And what Nazi editors don’t know about bad jokes is not worth knowing. Then follows an - example of Teutonic humour at its J-r ripest. This bright sheet broke the news to its readers that London, Paris, and New York had been swallowed j ,. by the Reich. These are the new ... names of small towns in Southern Bohemia, a part of Sudeten Germany. It doesn't matter, continued the Hiatt, g if our London, our Paris, and our New \ York are not world cities with millions , of inhabitants: they have one great advantage, they are free from Jews’. Germans, we read, were encouraged - to celebrate the Christmas festival in ’true Aryan spirit, as a Yeast going i.v. back to the days of the old Pagan Germanic tribes. And this son of a spud-digger, who writes these lines, .. >. thinks they won’t go back an awful , i long way. - i'r , ° Freud, the father of psycho-analysis,; . is a world-famous son of Abraham. He, I. says the German sense of humour is - ■; more or less subconscious, and uncon- ? scious. Germanic hysteria indicates an unstable mental state. Hysteria is always Nature’s effort to get back to v ? stability.—Yours, etc., ‘ CATHOLIC TRUTZH. February 11, 1939.