A Deferential Rejoinder
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{The Archbishop of York, revealing in the York diocesan leaflet that he has been receiving letters protesting against the Allied bombing of Axis towns, wrote in reply: ‘*The real justification for continuing the bombing is that it will shorten the war and may save thousands of lives. . . ."--Cable news item]. RCHBISHOPS and their Views Command my deep Respect; I would not idly choose To judge them incorrect, I would not disagree, Just trying to be smartOh, That would plainly be Presumption on my part! BY need we justify Our Bombing, on the Score Of saving Bloodshed by So shortening the War? Against our Pity’s grain, We bomb because we mustNeed it appear humane Because we feel it just? | E bomb to break the Reich, To lay its War Plants in Ruins-or if you like; We simply bomb to win. 1? find this Argument Too subtle, that contrives So neatly to present The Bomb as saving Lives. oF 3.4 Conscience (Hamlet taught) Makes Cowards of us All, And the pale Cast of Thought Makes high Resolve look small. I should not like to find The Proposition true, That Conscience, of a Kind, Can make us Humbugs, too! ae
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 211, 9 July 1943, Page 2
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202A Deferential Rejoinder New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 211, 9 July 1943, Page 2
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