Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

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AIR RAID Old Woman We’re women. No one’s making war on women . . . The nation with no land : without history: The nation whose dates are Stmday and Monday: the nation Botmded by bread and sleep ... by gi^dng birth: By taking death to keep: the ancient nation Settled in the seasons of this earth as Leaves are and oblivious as leaves: Neutral as stunmer in the fierce divisions. . . . Announcer If they picked them up to the right We’U sight them over the river: Horizon flat to the flight : Rising or seeming to rise As geese do coming inland. Blur of Hght on the fins. First Woman They’re always marching past to capture something! Second Woman It’s aU one if they march or they fly. They won’t hurt us ! Third Woman It’s aU one to us if they wing or they walk! Fourth Woman. — They’ve never troubled us yet! First Woman. — They’ve never harmed us! Old Woman. — They never wiU. You are a new policeman. Less than ten years you have been in this district. I do not mention this to shame you: only Y ou do not know the history of tMs neighborhood. We have seen such people in this place before. They come in uniforms carr\T.ng elegant banners. They march up and down. They ruin roads. They interfere with the cattle. They rob the fruit trees. They frighten calving cows. They trample clover. No one would say they were likable people for visitors . . . Making history over the com and the cabbage: 539