RE: [Pen-l] More Smoke

["Carl Dassbach" <dassbach@xxxxxxx>]

Being born in a town in Germany, Hanau am Main, which was of no military
importance and massively bombed 1 month before the end of the war by the
Americans using incendiary devices and killing, I believe,  8,000 civilians,
I can say that the US showed no restraint with the "krauts" either.

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] More Smoke

If I remember correctly, he showed no such restraint when it came to
bombing "wogs" (Iraqis).


> That Winston, such a card.
>
> "Churchill was sipping a glass of port in the House smoking room.
> Harold Nicolson was listening to him talk.  A conservative member of
> Parliament told the prime minister that the British public was
> demanding the unrestricted bombing of Nazi Germany.  "You and others
> may desire to kill women and children," Churchill replied, but the
> British government's desire was to destroy military objectives.  "My
> motto," the Prime Minister continued, "is 'Business before Pleasure.'"
>  It was October 17, 1940.  (p. 241, Human Smoke)
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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