Reluctance 30th November 1939

We use our Intelligence Service with reluctance.... only the British use such murderous methods. - Herr Himmler The cartoon accompanied the following editorial HIT THE WEAK "It is time to exterminate this puny bug; these dirty dogs, these clowns, these bastards." It all sounds " sickeningly " familiar. Who is talking ? Is it a Hitler record reporting the Fuehrer's description of Poles or Czechs ? Is it a reminiscence of the sort of backchat with which Ribbentrop once favoured " the scum of the earth "¿that is, the rulers of Moscow ? No: merely the Moscow radio interpreting the feelings of a hundred and Heaven knows how many million Russians against four million Finns. Whereupon our British Stalinites, for whom Father Joe is " always right," take up the hue and cry and explain that Comrade Stalin, with his mouthpiece, Comrade Molotov, (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)