CAPTAIN BALFOUR'S BROADCAST
am not unduly " ecclesiastical " nor do I wish to be hard on an erring fellow-creature, even if he is a member of the Government, but I cannot help thinking that Captain Balfour's broadcast of Wednesday, January 14th, reprinted in expurgated form on page 2 of The Times next day, brings him into the grasp of "Clause 18b." t. This admiration for " hate," " ruthlessness," &c., clearly shows " enemy associations." It is un-English and seems copied from Dr. Goebbels.
2. It " causes alarm and despondency "; at least it did so in me. It is the bad and unsuccessful soldier who vapours about the awful things he will do to the enemy when he has beaten him; the good soldier concentrates on beatin,.; him.
3. It directly helps the enemy, by reinforcing the Nazi argu- ment that the Atlantic Charter is merely eye-wash, and that if the Germans do not support Hitler to the last hour the only alterna- tive is utter destruction.
There will be enough hate and ruthlessness in Europe at the end of this war. It can be forgiven in the nations which have suffered the horrors of Nazi rule, but there is no need for us who have not so suffered to add to it.—Yours faithfully,
GILBERT HURRAY.
P.S.—The proper trial and punishment of war-criminals is, of course, a quite different question.
Yatscombe, Boars' Hill, Oxford.
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