Recipe for War Atmosphere
"If you want, to imagine what this j war is like,” writes an English correspondent in a letter received in Auckland, “remember the last one —I and then forget it. Then remember | the ‘jitters' of September, 19118. and j forget those, too. Then get a quiet | acceptance of the fact that we are | in a war after all. and that we will j definitely win it. Add to this a . splash of apprehension as to what the air raid will be like when it comes, and you have the atmosphere j of the new war. The normal opinion is trial (Hitler has got to be stopped, that we are the only ones really able able to do it, and so it has to be done.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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129Recipe for War Atmosphere Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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