QUEUE-RIOUS!
This pointed Italian story was broadcast recently in the 8.8.C.’s French transmission. A workman arriving home tired and hungry after a hard day finds that all his wife has to give him for his meal is some miserable-looking gruel. He upbraids her, but she says she has been unable to do better, though not for want of trying. “To getbread,” she says, “one has to stand in a queue for hours; to get macaroni one has to stand in another queue—still longer. Everywhere one A
I has to wait, wait i With set jaw the husband gets up, goes to a drawer and takes out a re1 volver. “What are you going to do?” his wife asks fearfully. ' “I can’t stand any more. I’m going to shoot Mussolini-.” He goes out. j An hour drags by. The door opens, and with a dejected air, the husband comes in. “My poor husband! You have killed him?” “I was unable to,” is the reply. “There, too, one must wait in a queue for hours.” A z
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1943, Page 2
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