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Show "This Is a Horrible War" If letters-found on German soldiers killed in Russia contain representative samples of German Ger-man thinking, it is fear not hope that keeps the Nazis going. It is interesting to contrast these messages with the buoyant letters let-ters from Britain which have appeared ap-peared on this page. Doing so one may sense that the cause for which the United Nations are fighting holds inspiration which is lacking in the Nazi attempt to make the Germans a master race. One German mother wrote to her son in Russia, according to a report from Moscow by Maurice Hindus to the New York Herald Tribune. "When will we finish with this plagued Russia? Maybe May-be never? There are too many people in Russia." Another mother moth-er wrote of the results of an air raid: "It was all so horrible . . . so many dead ... so many wounded ... so many weeping." Possibly there are more uplifting letters going to the front in Russia, Rus-sia, but these passages are not out of key with reports on German Ger-man morale from other sources. Most striking of the observations observa-tions culled from these letters is i one from a woman who had just witnessed a British bombing.. "Will anything remain of our city in the end?" her words cried. "This is a horrible war." Evidently it is taking just such experiences as this to convince con-vince some Germans that war is horrible. They have not felt the impact of war as have the victims of their leaders' ambitions. ambi-tions. "This," wrote the German woman, wo-man, "is a horrible war." Other peoples know that all war is horrible. hor-rible. That may be why they risked all too long for their own security in the world in efforts to avert it. Perhaps they will have the active co-operation of the I German people toward this end j in future. The Monitor. |