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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945
1935-08-21 Maureen Croly to Helen Fox Page 8
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8 all been military, and if war comes all my men relatives will be in active service, but not by word or deed would I encourage anyone to "join up". The Great War had no results that were worth having, and its evil results on the race of British people is too painfully obvious. The "war babies" are a scrubly, ill-developed crowd, physically and morally nothing to boast of - if we have another war, we shall end up as a race of creepy tadpoles! What a gloomy letter; better for me to write it and get it off my mind. I feel strung up and very in this horrible tension. Mother asked me yesterday if I would volunteer for Red Cross, and was appalled when I said "no, because the kindest thing would be to shoot most of the wounded outright, and I'm not a good shot." However please God
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8 all been military, and if war comes all my men relatives will be in active service, but not by word or deed would I encourage anyone to "join up". The Great War had no results that were worth having, and its evil results on the race of British people is too painfully obvious. The "war babies" are a scrubly, ill-developed crowd, physically and morally nothing to boast of - if we have another war, we shall end up as a race of creepy tadpoles! What a gloomy letter; better for me to write it and get it off my mind. I feel strung up and very in this horrible tension. Mother asked me yesterday if I would volunteer for Red Cross, and was appalled when I said "no, because the kindest thing would be to shoot most of the wounded outright, and I'm not a good shot." However please God
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