CARELESS TALK

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5595, 22 March 1943, Page 2

CARELESS TALK

(By “Whim Wham” in the Christchurch Press) The United States Office of War Information has picked up a Tokyo broadcast paying a tribute to a Japanese short-wave propagandist who talked himself to death denouncing Mr Roosevelt. Tokyo Radio said that this microphone martyr harangued Mr Roosevelt nightly and overstained himself. His condition steadly got worse find he finally succumbed.— Cable news item. What is the Moral of the Story About the Japanese Fanatic Who talked himself to Death and Glory, Having denounced in Terms emphatic The Foes of Nippon near and far, And Roosevelt in Particular? Is it that Nemesis descends On Those who vilify the Right That Death dramatically ends The long-vociferated Spite Of Broadcasters who do not care How horribly they foul the Air? Perhaps a Man cannot expect To change the Waves with Fear and Hate Indefinitely, and project . To distant Listeners such a WeiAit Of Malice, and himself While, dealing Death, to stay alfln No Moral of that Sort I fear, Is to be drawn from such Events; But oh, if Half the Talk I hear Had such a signal Consequence, With Death its natural Penalty— How very quiet the World would be!