VICTORY SOON?
Sir,-During the dark days the people of Britain maintained a dignity and poise beyond all praise, which makes it the more pathetic that so many of the leading men there (and here of course) have so completely lost their heads now. One of the worst seems to be MacDonald
Hastings of Picture Post. As one of several instances, when the schoolgirl who was assisting in his latest "London Letter" broadcast said that she thought the war in Europe would end in about nine months, he replied, "My word, you are a pessimist!"-and actually meant it! It is amazing that anybody can imagine the Germans surrendering without having tried every weapon. What for example would be the effect if the flying bombs, and perhaps the giant rockets still in preparation, were used to drench London and other centres with poison gas? Nobody knows, even if the Germans had only the gases used in the last war, which is unquestionably not the case. Even if it failed the Nazi leaders have nothing to lose by it, being already for trial as war criminals. And just conceivably it might not fail. Nobody knows; but we shall know, and soon, Germans being what they are.
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(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 268, 11 August 1944, Page 7
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