AIR BOMBING
VIEWS OF BRITISH CHURCH PAPER NO LEGITIMATE. DISTINCTION TO BE DRAWN. BETWEEN SOLDIER & CIVILIAN. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 28. “Much as we would wish to see the abolition o£ bombing altogether, we realise that there is no realism in such an attitude." says the newspaper “Church of England, menting on the bombing controversy. “It is a reverse Christian view which argues that civilians must not be killed while acquiescing that soldiers must be killed. If the world persists in war, let its penalties and consequences be equally distributed. We cannot sympathise with the agitation that the bombing ot towns should be stopped on the ground that it kills civilians. We have all become one in the bomber s slight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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123AIR BOMBING Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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