"RIGHTEOUS HATE."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24949, 23 June 1942, Page 3

"RIGHTEOUS HATE."

ATTITUDE TO ENEMIES LORD BEAVERBROOK'S VIEWS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 21. Lord Beaverbrook, addressing the biggest crowd ever seen in Victoria square, Birmingham, on the occasion of the celebration of the British-Soviet Treaty, said the Russians undoubtedly came near to defeating the Germans last winter. There must now be no unnecessary delay in establishing a second front. Lord Beaverbrook, after naming the Bishop of Birmingham and the Duke of Bedford as critics of the second front, condemned what he described as a "little group in Britain" who opposed the shipment of munitions to Russia and raised doubts about Russian policy. Lord Beaverbrook uttered a warning against the attitude that only Hitler and the Nazi leaders were bad. "The German people approved at every stage as Hitler passed from crime to crime. Let us cultivate," he said, "a stern, righteous hatred for the Germans. Let us also hate the Japanese—those barbarians who have given us good cause for hate. Let our contempt for the misguided Italians be as bitter and lasting as hatred itself, but let us keep our chief hatred for our chief enemies—the Germans." Lord Beaverbrook denied that bombing would win the war. "The army won the last war, and it will win this war," he said. " It. is ready to avenge Dunkirk and recover the British standards lost on Dunkirk's beach. Now, by hacd and sharp blows, and killing and killing, is the time for us to show we are the warriors of the world."