POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 116, 19 May 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY /FLAGS

There's this: You can't win- battles by sitting on your heels. ■» ■) «• # Maybe those booming Stormoviks Will hurry Adolf to the' Styx, With other Nazi lunatics. * -» * 1 P.O.B.—Suggested - slogan for the ' Government: "Every thing under control." *.■■*■ ♦ = We know that when we hear I tramp, i tramp, tramp, it is the dove of peace [pacing the floor far into the night. Woman at Tottenham Court: I told her husband that bis wife had hit me without saying anything. He said: "If she didn't say anything it can't have been my wife. She's one that has a lot to say." * * * ; BLACK-OUT. ! How's this for Scots caution? V Jock: Am afu seek. Am feart o' outer darkness and "passin,' out" Jean: Am goun tae sleep, so if yer "passin* awa" be shar tae blaw oot the cawnel. ERCH3E. * ♦ *•■ ' ' RETRIBUTION. A promise that Russian pilots will avenge the three sons of Lady MacRoberts was published by "Isvestia" in an article in which a Russian newspaperwoman described the Scottish mother's gifts of four fighter planes as a deeply significant symbol. The example of seven young Russian fighter pilots who recently dived in to attack seven German, bombers escorted by eighteen, fighters is being held up as exemplifying the courage and teamwork required in. the present air campaign. * * * CONVOY. Let's sing a song of safloimen who sail the seven seas, No tourist trips in worn-out ships are the freight of these merchandise; But guns and yen for fighting men who are giving for us their all; They brave the tide where their fathers died, nor count the lost tod small. They steer through the dawn of an Arctic morn, and far into the sunset glow, With never a thought of submarine, or danger down below. • These are the men of the Nelson breed; but Victory is now in sight. So cheers to the men who man these ships as they sail far into the night. JIMMY MUL. Invercargill. * * * JUDAS HITLER. The death of Adolf Hitler by suicide was predicted recently by, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen in his third Lenten sermon at solemn mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Tracing an analogy between the passion and death of Christ and the state of the world today, he described the Fuhrer as the Judas who betrayed \ France and Czecho-Slovakia with the "kiss of death/ \ "Hitler kisses with the kiss of be- ■■ trayal," the prominent spokesman declared. "A few years before he died P6pe Pius XI said: 'Hitler is" another Judas/ May we not expect one called by such a name by the Vicar of Christ will end his life the same way?"