WAR ATTITUDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6

WAR ATTITUDE

“NOT FIGHTING GERMAN PEOPLE” LORD MILNE’S CRITICISM MOST DANGEROUS PRINCIPLE TO INCULCATE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. In the House of Lords, Lord Milne, seconding the Address-in-Reply, said: "We are said not to be fighting the German people. As a soldier. I say it is a most dangerous principle io inculcate in fighting men that they are not fighting the men they are going to meet in the field. The sooner those who have drawn the sword learn that they are liable to perish by the sword, the sooner this conflict will end. The German youth are thoroughly behind their leader. Although we may think we are not fighting the German nation, the Germans are fighting us and they •.ire a most stubborn lot. No economic pressure, however severe, will make the Germans sue for peace until they have received blow after blow from sea. land and air. I trust these blows will be hard, strenuous, relentless and absolutely pitiless.” Earl Stanhope, replying on behalf of the Government, declared that no neutral wished Germany to be successful, except possibly Russia, who hoped to derive advantages from a stalemate. He emphasised the British fighters’ superiority over the German bombers. He also paid a tribute to the Dominion Navies, which were keeping the seas free far from their home bases. Earl Stanhope said the first element of special Dominion land forces would soon be ready to take part. He added that garrisons in the Middle East and in defended harbours had been increased and strengthened.