PROVERBIAL WARNINGS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 12

PROVERBIAL WARNINGS

“ ‘Cracked jugs,’ an old proverb has it, ‘last longest.” There are comparable proverbs associated with creaking gates and with threatened men. All these proverbs and all their implications we commend to readers disposed to rejoice too soon and too much over the indications of ‘cracking’ and ‘creaking’ in Germany. That things are not going too well with an aggressor who has belatedly found somebody to stand up to him is quite certain. That, because things are not going too well in view of unexpected opposition, there are dispromised another victory march can sensions in a nation that had been promised another victory march can also be assumed. That, given continued opposition from the democracies or effective reaction to any rash action, the cracks in the German jug will widen till the jug falls to pieces —that too is a proper and reasonable assumption. But it is a long, long way from these readings of the war position to tjie optimism—the ‘all over bar shouting’ sentiment.”— “Birmingham Post.”