“THE UNNECESSARY WAR”
Sir, —Herr Hitler, soaked in petrol, made his last appearance as a bonfire in Berlin. Signor Mussolini's bullet-ridden corpse was last seen hanging, wrong end up, on a lamp post in Milan. General Franco makes his latest appearance, right end up, at the head of the cable page of the Otago Daily Times. As to which of the three Fascist dictators has fallen farthest, opinions may differ. There can be only one opinion regarding that conflict which deprived the peace-loving, democratic nations of a Fuehrer and of a Duce and left us only a Caudillo. That conflict was not only, as Mr Churchill says, an “ unnecessary war it was a colossal blunder which might have proved irreparable. But, reading our daily papers, we see a Firam of hope—atom bombs and 1,000,000 Spanish Fascists under General Franco may yet preserve our Christian civilisation and make safe for - democracy that part of the world which lies on the American side of the Pyr^->es.—l am, etc., A Wall Street Democrat.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 8
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