[Leica] New Year Greeting

[Douglas Barry]

HNY Bill,
Unfortunately, the tide of autocracy is rising at the moment and 2023 
looks to be a difficult one.

Douglas

On 01/01/2023 03:12, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
>             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
>
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