Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In his Dec. 31, 1939 broadcast from London, his year-end review of the war against Germany? when England stood alone ? Edward R. Murrow included: ?This is the only opportunity I shall have to extend new year?s greetings to my friends at home. Here they are: the new year is at our door, I wish for the stupid a little understanding, and for the understanding a little poetry. I wish a heart for the rich, and a little bread for the poor. But above all, I wish that we may blackguard each other as little as possible during the new year. ?Those words were written by a German, Heinrich Heine ? a great man ? who died in 1856.? Page 64 of his book ?This is London.? ?Bill Clough Washington audio