[Leica] New Year Greeting

[Bill Clough]

           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

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