ATTITUDE TOWARDS GERMANY
“Dangerous Softness Appearing”
(Rec. 11 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA, May 8. “We must prove to the German people that aggression does not pay,” said M. Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslovak diplomat at the 1.L.0. full plenary session.
He added: “I do not want the extermination of the whole German nation. After the last war we lost the peace by not persuading Germany that she was beaten. Sometimes I feel certain there are indications of a very dangerous softness appearing on the horizons. “The theory that only Hitler and a few of his guttersnipe partners are guilty is not only untrue but unintelligent. What a nauseating thought that 70,000,000 people were led. into war by one abnormal monstrosity! All Germa'ns are not guilty, but we Czechs have been neighbours of Germany for a thousand years. There is nothing anybody can teach us about certain bellicose, goose-stepping German qualities. The fate of Germany, until the last shot is fired, should be, in the hands of General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and their Russian counterparts.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25359, 10 May 1944, Page 5
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