WAR CRIMES
4 RETRIBUTION & VENGEANCE DISTINCTION DRAWN. BY ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.)
LONDON, January 22. Drawing a distinction between retribution and vengeance the Archbishop of York (Dr W. Temple) in his presidential address to the Convocation of York, said the name of Germany was increasingly becoming for civilised peoples a name of hatred and execration. There must be punishment for her crimes. Mr Churchill undoubtedly was right when he included retribution among the war aims, but it was easy to slide from retribution into a desire to exact vengeance, which was a naked evil, producing bitterness and finally retaliatory war, besides corroding the soul of him indulging in vengeance. It was natural for men under a strain to raise a cry for vengeance. We must be ready for this but not to yield to it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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