It is difficult to see what the Germans hope to gain by bombing and machine-gunning the irish civilian population as they have been doing since they started their intensified aerial attacks. If they hope to shatter the moral of the people, as they shattered the moral of others by their terrifying, bullying and inhuman methods of warfare, they have made a great mistake. In the British people they will find a race that will fight, on to the bitter end—a race that will give as good as it takes. Rather is the German method of aerial warfare likely to act as a boomerang which will bring serious repercussions when it strikes. The British people are furious, their fighting blood aroused by this German display of barbarity. And when they are in this mood it is woe betide the enemy, for they can be certain that Britain will always repay in kind. That is where the danger to Germany lies. The British Government can rest assured that bombing raids on England will tend to stiffen resistance to the Nazis but can the German Government rely on its people to take bombing and machine-gunning so calmly when they come? Without a mind of their own since Hitler came to power, the German people (many of them opponents of the Nazi regime) have been brow beaten into shouting "Hell Hitler" on days it will burst if\Hitler, mad with the lust for power and yet more power, continues on the road to destruction which he is treading at the moment. Successes on the field of battle may delay his end but it will come. Butter not guns builds up a nation to resist nerve shattering air raids and wholesale destruction. The Nazis got guns and ersatz margarine. Today the British are still receiving butter as well as guns. The coming winter will prove how Hitler, like most dictators, is prone to make mistakes. Despite his cherished hope that Britain will be defeated by: that time, he will find that his enemy is only stronger than he is, but is growing "stronger every day. When Berlin.and in countless other that, the world may see a sudden change the dictator's fortunes. The Great War years and. those. that followed are still too fresh in the minely of many
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