KID-GLOVE TRUCE
CRITICS OF DUNKIRK " RESPECT FOR SIGNED AGREEMENTS" (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. Indignation, and > sometimes _ anger, has been expressed over the kid-glove truce which has ended at Dunkirk, says Reuter's correspondent outside Dunkirk. One British captain said: "It is time we forgot the playing fields of Eton and gave thought to 1940." But a staff officer put the other viewpoint. He said: " It seems ludicrous that we let the Germans relay mines and reestablish defences, but unless we agreed to them doing so they would not have let the civilians out. We could have broken faith and attacked immediately the civilians left, but we are fighting this war for respect for signed agreements,"
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Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 7
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