A HIT AND A MORAL.
“ ‘Tn .-til the raiding over London, during the wav, the Houses of Parliament were Hit only once. A fragment, of shrapncll; fired hy our anti-aircraft guns at a German plane, came through that window, and hit that painting at that spot. Ironical, wasn’t it? A bullet fired by a British gun, in a nai in which we were allied with the French and fighting the Germans, penetrated our Houses of Parliament to deface a painting which commemorates a previous war in which, when we were allied with the Germans and fighting the French, our greatest naval hero fell. We’ve left the hole in the win-dow-pane, just as a sort of reminder of the ephemeral nature of alliances, and of the futility of war in general.’ ” Related by a British Liberal M.P. to Mr Paul Hutchinson, and retold in the “Christian Centurion.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1929, Page 6
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146A HIT AND A MORAL. Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1929, Page 6
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