FALSE WAR GLAMOUR
"The rcmantists disapprove of the realists for speaking of the war in terms of mud and poison gas, lice and snipers (instead of picturing it as one long> clean fight in the open), yet one would have thought that to have to think of it thus, and remember it thus, so far from lessening the altruism of our sloldiers' sacrifices, increases it a thousandfold," writes Mr Godfrey Winn in his book, "I May Be Wrong."
"And what the advocates of the pseudo-romantic attitude do not seem to understand is that in allowing false glamour to creep back and blur the conscience of the younger generation they will in the end only succeed in defeating their own object, which is presumably to hallow the memory of the dead.
"For what will be the consequences of that false glamour, but that the truth that war is not only a horrible but also a hopeless way of settling international difference}} (as hopeless for the victor as for the vanquished), will be utterly lost. "Our chidren in the years to come will look at the 'pretty pictures' in their history books and say with happy pride, instead of with horrified pity, 'That's the battle grandfather fought in '"
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3253, 10 November 1932, Page 2
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206FALSE WAR GLAMOUR Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3253, 10 November 1932, Page 2
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