LORD VANSITTART
ATTITUDE TO GERMANY LONDON, Apl. 28. Lord Vansittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1941, said in a speech at Bradford: “ I disapproved-, not only of what was done at Munich, but what was contemplated there. I was criticised then for saying too much about Germany. Finally, I was removed from my post for being anti-German.” He added: “ If the very simple truths I am trying to tell Britain are again rejected, you will have a third world war in less time than it took to havfe the second.
“I happen to foresee the inevitable consequences of 150 years of miseducation in Germany. My cure is not vindictiveness, but common sense. It would be drastic, but not inhuman, consisting of the entire military defeat of Germany, the destruction of German armaments, both spiritually and materially—spiritually because it is no use destroying guns if you leave the lust to make more—and also prolonged inter-Allied occupation and reeducation of Germany.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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