NOT VENGEANCE
BUT WINNING THE WAR. THE BOMBING OF GERMANY. “Mrs Goodge was bombed out twice in six months. Mrs Goodge shook her head. ‘They say we’re getting our own back,’ she said. ‘But I say to them, how can we? How can you bring back my shop by knocking down shops over there? How can you bring back little Mrs Morris’s two children by dropping bombs over there? No, I say to them, we’re not getting our own back. We can never do that in this wtorld. What’s gone is gone. Perhaps we’re punishing some what’s brought this thing on us all. I hope as how we are. But what we are doing in Germany, I say —and my own boy Edward is in the Bomber Command—what we are doing there I say, is not vengeance, but winning the war. That’s what we’re doing, I say, and the quicker we do it the better. But them that talks about vengeance ; has got the wrong end of the stick. That way you’ll have wars for ever.’ ” —Colin Wills in a 8.8. C. overseas series.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1943, Page 4
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184NOT VENGEANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1943, Page 4
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