Levende Talen. Jaargang 1934

Mayor.

In verband met de opmerkingen van den Heer Kruisinga in een critiek in het vorig nummer zijn de volgende citaten, die voor de zooveelste maal bewijzen dat het pad van den criticus met doornen is bezaaid, waard hier af te drukken.

‘A mayor is now in England the official head of a municipal gonernment .... His term of office is one year, but he is eligible for re-election .... The English method of selecting a mayor by the council is followed for the corresponding functionaries in France .... Direct appointment by the central government exists in Belgium, Holland ....’

(The Encyclopaedia Britannica, IIth Ed.).

‘The communists, by the way, have been distributing a faked Nazi leaftet, begging people not to believe the socialistic rumours that Herr Röchling's capital will be expropriated, or the mayor of Saarbrücken's large salaryy reduced in Nazi Germany.’¹⁾

(The New Statesman and Nation, June 23 '34).

1) N.B. Herr, maar, mayor.

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‘Mr. Knox .... in his valiant struggle for fair play in the Saar. Within the territory he has to work with mayors, judges and policemen who are far more loyal to Hitler than to him.’

(Same paper, same day).

Ten slotte: ‘Tis clear’, cried they, ‘our Mayor's a noddy’.

(R. Browning).

d.m.e. habbema.