GERMAN SUFFERING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 5

GERMAN SUFFERING

NECESSARY AS A LESSON

(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON. Mar. 22. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, in an article in the Diocesan Gazette, said: “We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that along with the disruption of Germany’s fighting efficiency must go as a consequence of air attacks immense and terrible sufferings to the citizens and thousands of refugees who fled or were compulsorily transported from East Prussia and from the Rhineland, but we should be wrong to allow this to deflect us from our first duty, which is to break the German military machine and it may be that this extremity of suffering is necessary if the German people are to learn to hate and abjure militarism which they have so long idealised.”

Referring to Poland, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: “ L share in the practical unanimity that at Yalta the claims both of justice and expediency were satisfied, but fears remain and everything depends on the way in which effect is given to the principles adopted. A great responsibility rests upon both the Russians and the Poles.”