KILLING IN WAR
Sir;-"Keeper of the Flame" surely gets mixed between questions of fact and questions of policy. He surely cannot think that the enemy he kills is always of worse character than himself. It is a soldier’s duty to kill as many of the enemy as possible, but, from my observation, soldiers would scorn. the notion of taking away the private characters of the men they kill-or of suggesting that, morally, they were very different from themselves. That is the factual side, but, as a matter of policy, it may be as well for the general public, during war, to believe that the opponents are all near-monsters and of quite different clay. I would suggest that K.O.T.F. reads Montague’s Disenchantment. The Listener we find a stimulating and independent magazine, and we wish you more power and good luck.
J. C.
WALSH
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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143KILLING IN WAR New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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