B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 62, 10 August 1944, Page 4

B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

INTERESTING EXTRACTS. “I found cut that there were more than five thousand Maoris serving overseas . . . and that in Africa Rommel made a complaint about them. He said: ‘The Maoris simply penetrate a position and kill everybody.’ Well, that seemed to be a nice tribute—coming from Rommel.” RIGHT UP THE FRENCHMAN’S STREET. In renaming, in German, the streets of Alsace, the Nazis made at least one bad blunder, which recoiled on their own heads. They altered the name of the principal street of Mulhouse to ‘ ‘ Adolf Hitler Strasse. ’ ’ That street was formerly well known to everyone as the “Rue de Sauvage.” After the change, the Mulhousiens would exclaim to one another: “At last, we know the name of this savage. ’ ’ When the apt association dawned on the Germans, they decided* to do homage to Hitler elsewhere. NAZIS “PERFORM” TO THE LAMBETH WALK. In a recent despatch of Normand

MacDonald’s, broadcast on short wave by the 8.8. C., the story of a daring Danish coup was revealed. It described how on the previous Sunday night performances at 20 of Copenhagen’s leading cinemas were suddenly interrupted. Then the puzzled audience found itself watching a. British film, caricaturing Hitler and other Nazi leaders. They marched to and fro on the screen and did faipjiliar Nazi acrobatics to the tune of the “Lambeth Walk.” Once the people in the cinema grasped the situation they laughed hilariously. When recorded anti-Nazi speeches accompanied the picture their enthusiasm increased. When this unscheduled performance came to an end, the cinemas showing German films had to close down What had happened was that Danish patriots had forced an entry into the projector rooms and compelled the operators to substitute the anti-Nazi film. When the patriots departed they took with them the reels of the German film. None of the patriots was caught. As a

reprisal the Germans ordered all cinemas in the Danish capital to shut. WHAT COLONEL KNOX MEANT TO BRITONS. Robin Dull’, a British war correspondent, wears an American uniform because he is attached to the United States Forces in Britain, in a 8.8. C. Radio News Reel for overseas listeners he described, a short tini(j ago, an experience he had one morning while walking through Fleet Street (London’s newspaper world), just after the news came through of Colonel Knox’s death.

A little man in a neat, but threadbare suit, came up to him, and, obviously taking him for an American, said: “I want to tell you how sorry we are about your ‘Colonel Knox. He was our friend as well as yours.” Duff said, in his radio comment, that the politicians of one country don’t often much to the people of another country; unless they are Roosevelts or Churchills, they are just names to the general public. But, Duff remarked, it seems that Frank Knox was different. “People here knew him as a man who had fought in France in the first World War, and as a man who put national interest before party politics. They remember in essence, if not in words, his statenyent ‘National defence is not a partisan matter. The U.S. Navy knows

no party. ’ ’ THE SWASTIKA IS SHRINKING ! “The Shadow Grows Less” was the title H. Carleton Greene gave to one of his recent talks in the German programme of the 8.8. C. ’s European Service. Tn the course of it he surveyed the current trend of the Gcrnyin and American Press. Among, perhaps, a dozen extracts, chosen on a countrywide basis, which he quoted—all on the subject of runaway foreign workers, German deserters, or on the growing audacity (encouraged by the absence of the staunch party members) of grumblers and critics of the regime—was this one from Klagenfurt: “Gauleiter Rainer said in a speech that when the party purge is completed the chaff will have been ruthlessly separated from the wheat and there will only be a few members left Tvho ‘endured unflinchingly.’ ”