SAVAGERY WASTED
NO HOPE OF DEFEATING BRITAIN BY MURDEROUS RAIDS. REFERENCE TO THE CRY FOR RETALIATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. If Hitler continued to lose his temper and waste the Luftwaffe’s efforts on such raids as Wednesday’s attack on London, it would suit the British very '■well, said the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Commander Fletcher, at Barnstaple. He.said Britain could never be defeated by such raids. He imagined that the British confined themselves to military objects because it was thought the quickest and surest way to victory.
Commander Fletcher added: “But human nature being what it is, it will not be possible to ignore the cry for retaliation indefinitely. And if we ever do decide on retaliation, then heaven help the Germans. Day by day we are accumulating in these islands, from our factories and from America, what will be the largest bombing force with the longest range and biggest bombing load in existence. Hitler will live to regret that he ever began the attack upon civilians.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 6
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175SAVAGERY WASTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 6
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