NEW CHAIN-LETTER
DANISH OFFICER'S PLAN | ACTING WITH HUMANITY [FROM A SPECIAL COnr.KSrONDF.KT] LONDON, Dec. 2 The latest successor to the famous' chain-letter, started many years ago by "an American officer in France." is the one just set going by a Danish * flying officer. He has startecte rather a different sort of chain-letter, calling on all recipients of it to -"jact with as much humanity and consideration for others as possible, to make a voluntary promise to do this, to send a sum of • money to the Red Cross, if they can afford it, and to wear a badge, in the form of a tiny bow or loop of green ribbon, so as to remind them of their promise. "Do not break the chain," .appeals the aviator from Denmark, but lie docs not say that breaking.it will bring bad luck. Recipients are asked to copy tno whole of the letter and to send tlio copies to as many, people as possible.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 4
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160NEW CHAIN-LETTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 4
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