SIMILAR TO OSTRICHES
" The English people are like ostriches," said Commander R. C. Harding, of Christchurch, in the course of an address at the annual meeting of tho Otago branch of the Navy League. "When there aro unpleasant facts about they trv to hide their heads in tho sand. An instance of this was seen in the attitude of the people when tho German war fleet was sunk at Scapa Flow, and another instance was the manner in which war talk was avoided in England. It is ii kind of mental camouflage which leiiids to foreigners calling us hypocriteci."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 16
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99SIMILAR TO OSTRICHES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 16
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