Show Humane Warfare Talk Labeled Bunk All Wars Won by y Killing By ny DeWitt Mackenzie Associated Press War Analyst Should the winged fighting forces of ot the allies cease bombing industrial cities like cities like Cologne or orthe orthe orthe the manufacturing suburbs of Paris for example example because because civilians civilians civil civil- ians lans are killed in the raids which are carrying us towards victory and the end of a bloody war A committee of Britons of whom Professor H. H Stanley Jevons Jevons Je- Je widely known educator and author is one one has has petitioned the British government to stop bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing civilians The committee doesn't object to precision bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing of military and arid industrial targets targets targets tar tar- gets but is horrified at such civilian casualties as were caused in Cologne Now I dont don't think for a minute that the committee has lighted a afire afire afire fire which will act as a beacon to summon the world to its support However it has raised an Interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting subject and one which is quietly but widely being discussed The answer to the protest isn't hard to find Wrong Headquarters Of course deliberate bombing of civilians with civilians with emphasis on the word deliberate is is contrary to International law and Is a throwback throwback throw- throw back jack to barbarism But the committee com corn has registered its protest at the wrong headquarters The Germans Italians and Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese have engaged in purposeful b a 0 m b bin I n g of throughout the war presumably in an effort to break civilian civilian- morale Some awful atrocities have been committed Agreed that deliberate bombing of civilians Is savagery supposing savagery supposing they get caught at the target Are bombs to be withheld because of that The factories of Cologne were turning out weapons of death to tobe tobe tobe be used against the allies They were protracting th the war thereby thereby thereby there there- by costing the lives of thousands of united nations troops and causing causing caus caus- ing untold suffering to civilians in allied countries Humanity doesn't ask us to tomake tomake tomake make such a a. sacrifice in order to protect enemy enemy peoples Won by Killing As a matter of fact as this column column col col- col has insisted before talk about about- humane warfare is a lot lotof lotof lotof of bunk It cant can't be humanized Just so long as theres there's armed aggression aggression aggression ag ag- ag- ag which must be met by defense in kind just so long will civilians die Try to squirm out of It all you can but wars are won by killing When you stop to think about it does death by bombing hurt a civilian more than it does a soldier soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier I doubt It though perhaps the civilians civilian's mental anguish is greater because of lack of schooling schooling school school- ing in violence Anyway the allies arent aren't going to let the lives of a few thousand civilians civilia s stand In the way of saving saving saying sav say ing the world from the barbarities of Hitler and the Japanese The United States is building the greatest air force In the world and and we Intend to use it |