THE FOOL IN HIS PARADISE
Sir. —About the year 1910, when the menace of a militant, Germany became apparent, there appeared in Punch a joke on the subject. The scone was laid in an Hellish east coast village and portrayed a peaceful view of manorial hall, cottages, inn. etc.. and in the foreground a village yokel being interviewed by the city reporter, who was apparently trying to find out: the yokel s reaction to a possible German invasion. In answer to the city man s suggestion the yokel laughs and says "What! the Germans take our village, and turn out our squire from the Hall!" (impressively) -'Young man, ver don't know our squire!" Recently there came a story from one ol" the Huntly mines. Scene below, crib time, and the miners sitting round discussing the war. and the p<#ssihility of a German victory, when one man suggests that in this event (hey would probably be working 12 hours a day foi about tour shillings. To which an ardent unionist sneeringly replied ''Yes! and what do ver think the unions would be doin'!"
So perhaps we don't change very much through the years. G.D.M.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23966, 16 May 1941, Page 14
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