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Vansittart's preoccupation with German original sin also turns up in his constant -and inaccurate-use of "Hun."* This practice has done much to build the legend of Vansittartism, misconceived as a ferocious intent to wipe every last German from the earth's face. Yet Bones of Contention follows the line of Vansittart's former books in sober, well-documented, closely reasoned advocacy of a hard peace for Germany. Vansittart's flashes of hatred are incidental to his solid analysis of how the Germans got the way they are and what to do about them...
...French civilian, H.D.. tells how the last issue of TIME to reach him somehow got through to occupied France, "where the German officers quartered in my home read it with great interest but never figured out that it was verboten literature; the Hun is as stupid as ever." Still another Frenchman writes that "during the Battle of Normandy bombardments and air fights raged all around my house, and it was a miracle that we were saved. It was a great sight when the Americans came." An old lady writes: "I was evacuated and found myself on the highways with...
That it's for us to show we hate the Hun...
...lightweight boxing champion in school, he had one outstanding qualification for his job: a contagious fighting spirit. To Colonel Zemke, one of the truly great fighter commanders of World War II, there was only one unforgivable mistake: "To let a Hun get away is a criminal offense. It's a worse blunder than getting shot up yourself...
...they are faring. . . . Back there in Britain life seemed so generous to them-clothes, food, equipment and money, particularly money. . . . [You] wondered how these American cousins of ours with their neatly creased clothes and their fondness for what seemed to us to be luxuries would face the stubborn Hun...