Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] New Year Greeting
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:45:19 +0000
References: <CABAowZ73eTCXqJgpXMQd3yiE2ManMEjnMYYnHci1kRCLu8WJmQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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