REPORT FROM BERLIN
Sir, —The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” is quoted in “The Press” to-day: . in 1945. when the Red Army, in the flush of victory committed the unforgettable rape of Berlin.” Sir Philip Gibbs, in “The Pageant of the Years,” writes of this same period: “Three million German refugees were gathered round the railway stations in Berlin during the last phase of dur war with Germany. Would it not have been a chivalrous act to give them a few days’ respite and due warning with time to escape? Would it not have placed us rather higher ir the verdict of history? But no! Night after night we intensified our air raids and dropped thousands of tons of bombs on the stricken city.” Who were ravishers when “women and children and all civilians were deliberately and intensively bombed with complete ruthlessness” (ibid.)? The Berlin correspondent is obviously warmongering.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. July 13, 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 8
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