HUMOUR AND PUBLIC LIFE
ALL the humour has not gone out of public lite, despite these hard times. Mr Jack Diamond has recently remarked to the District Attorney of New York that he doesn’t know who the men are that, filled him with bullets, necessitating his retirement to a hospital. He calmly explained that they couldn tbe enemies of his, because he has none. The Americans arc playful people and their delight in a gay time is inclined to impel them to let the light into a man’s soul somewhat expeditiously. It is not their desire to commit a crime on the body of Mr Diamond: it really proceeds from their love of expedition. Of course Mr Diamond may be more sure of ’his premises than most people. He may be as certain as the dying Mexican general who refused to pray for his enemies because no man living could be called an enemy. He himself had seen to that. Of course, it, may be objected that Mr Diamond is not in public life, but that is answered by pointing to his many public appearances —in Court.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 449, 15 December 1930, Page 6
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