GIVE GERMANS THEIR OWN MEDICINE.
“FOULEST AND DIRTIEST FIGHTERS.” Sir Warren Fisher, North-AVestern Regional Commissioner, speaking at a luncheon of the Manchester Publicity Association, urged that the initiative should be wrested from the enemy in every sphere. This was a war of religion and unless we were as convinced of the truth of the principles underlying the Sermon on the Mount as were the Prussians about their own hellish doctrine of brutality, bestiality, bullying, fraud, cunning,, and plunder wo doomed ourselves to failure. Tlie Germans were of all foul and dirty fighters the foulest and dirtiest. Though as an Englishman he was sorry to have to say it, we must, if we are to deal with them, temporarily put aside our traditional methods and give them hell in every sort of way best calculated to bring things hofne'to them. Large and frequent doses of their own medicine were essential if we were to make any impression on them. It was fatal folly to take the line with these thugs that “no gentleman can do this” and leave them free to murder Polish civilians on land and English civilians at sea without hitting back at German civiL ians.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 7
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197GIVE GERMANS THEIR OWN MEDICINE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 7
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