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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22204, 23 February 1942, Page 4

Deprecating the distinction often made between Germans 'and Nazis, Eden Philpotts, novelist and dramatist, writes:—Many Britons exercise for ever the vision of Germany as a bleeding martyr who calls upon civilisation to cut the cancer (of Nazism) from her bosom; since Germany is herself the cancer now running throughout the Old World and threatening with increasing tenacity the New. She penetrates web and woof, destroying the fabric of human society, pouring her venom through every existing channel of international relations, creating nests and pockets in the healthy' tissue of her neighbours, fouling and destroying the forests of human kind that her own fungus breed alone shall inherit the earth and the fulness thereof. * * * ♦ I am in all my opinions to believe according to my impartial reason; which I am bound to inform and improve, as far as my capacity and opportunities will permit.— Jonathan Swift. ... * Posterity is a schoolboy who is made to learn by heart a hundred lines. He learns ten, stammers a few syllables of the remainder; the ten lines are fame, the rest is literary history.— Remy De Gourmont. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. —Samuel Butler.