Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the enlightening thought! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 8:42 AM Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information