Quotes

New York, Thursday.—Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, who became High Commissioner in Canada in April, 1941, said to-day: “The British are a much better people than they were in 1939 because they have undergone a peaceful social revolution.
“We had the inestimable blessing of being bombed. This enriched British character and blasted to bits some of the worst social faults.”—(Daily Express, February 25, 1944.)

“Even if our generation did no more in this war than endure bombs, that would be enough to make it immortal.” —(Goebbels to the Germans, News-Chronicle>, April 14, 1944.)

“The Japanese have’ proved themselves a sub-human race. . . . When they are beaten back to their own savage land, let them live there in complete isolation from the rest of the world, as in a leper compound, unclean.”—(Daily Mail, January 29, 1944.)

“There is also the pathos of a decent people bound in the Army’s fanatical tyranny. Mr. Morris has a deep affection for the Japanese. His students, without exception, loathed and did everything possible to avoid military training.”—(From a review of “Traveller from Tokyo,” by John Morris, who was in Japan till July, 1942, Manchester Guardian, November 5, 1943.)

“As a practical industrialist, I am perfectly satisfied in my own mind that if everyone really worked on an efficient basis for four days a week, we could keep the world going and have three days a week for recreation.”—(Hugh Mason Crankshaw, President of the Birmingham Exchange, Sunday Express, April 2, 1944.)