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...Reference to Alfred Duff Cooper's toast to the Empire on St. George's Day, in which he named the German people, as well as the Nazi regime, as Great Britain's hated target...
...Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...aims sponsored for the past eight months by the Allies. According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines of European economic federation could be made. Duff Cooper's one concession to this attitude: the pint-sized German States should be "impotent but prosperous...
...Duff Cooper got his opportunity thus to sound off against the German people when he was suddenly called on to pinch-hit for Winston Churchill at a meeting of the Royal Society of St. George. First Lord Churchill had gone to sit in on the Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern...
...Duff Cooper is only an M. P., but some British opinion is trending his way. Last week even Sir John Reith, stuffy Minister of Information and onetime head of British Broadcasting Corp., intoned with his heavy boom: "Britain is fighting Germany and the British people are fighting the German people. Don't let there be any mistake about it." Nonetheless there was such stiff public criticism of Duff Cooper's attitude that two days later he hastened to amplify it: "I think it is essential to destroy [the] German armed forces and not let them have weapons again...