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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22066, 12 September 1941, Page 4

“Do not read too much about the war,” said Sir Walter Langdon-Brown, of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in the Chadwick Lecture of 1941, as a proviso to the commendation: “What a solace books are these dark nights!” He recommended in particular Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope, “so restful and calming.” If you read Jane Austen, he said, you will “see how little people at home worried about the Napoleonic wars when we wpre previously threatened by invasion.”

“I am no killjoy. I want to see the people getting a fair measure of recreation. But when I hear of 900 cars pt a race meeting and 60,000 at a football match I wonder whether we are crazy,” said Mr E. Shinwell, M.P., in addressing Durham miners. “Merchant seamen are being shot to pieces bringing petrol and other supplies here. Think of the petrol consumed, the transport used, and the services required for all this so-called recreation and ask yourselves whether we are really organising our '"’resources for war. This sort of thing must stop.’’