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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, April-June 1918

1918-05-16 Robert M. Browning To Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 4

I wanted to kill half a dozen extra Huns. I no longer feel the horror I used to experience at the thought of using a bayonet. All I ask in the world is a chance to make some of those beasts pay for their crimes in Belgium and France and Serbia, and everywhere that they've come in contact with noncombatants, women and children. They aren't human. The Kaiser has educated all the humanity out of them. I want to meet some of "those delightful German people with whom 'we have no quarrel.'" God have mercy on them, for nobody else will.
I found the letters from the psi camp and will inclose them.Hope you haven't worried about them or wanted them. When you write tell Hansen & Bunch that the non-coms are "the back-bone of the army "according to the old tradition. The "brains of the outfit are under the black and gold cords. So saith Tradition which is as powerful in the Army as in the church or school.
How do they like their work by this time? Is their camp over? Where are they now?
If you aren't disgusted with me as a correspondent I'll promise to reply more promptly to your next letter. I've been all upset for a couple of months but am returning to normal now.
Give my greeting to my friends, please.
Sincerely yours Bob

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I wanted to kill half a dozen extra Huns. I no longer feel the horror I used to experience at the thought of using a bayonet. All I ask in the world is a chance to make some of those beasts pay for their crimes in Belgium and France and Serbia, and everywhere that they've come in contact with noncombatants, women and children. They aren't human. The Kaiser has educated all the humanity out of them. I want to meet some of "those delightful German people with whom 'we have no quarrel.'" God have mercy on them, for nobody else will. I found the letters from the psi camp and will inclose them.Hope you haven't worried about them or wanted them. When you write tell Hansen & Bunch that the non-coms are "the back-bone of the army "according to the old tradition. The "brains of the outfit are under the black and gold cords. So saith Tradition which is as powerful in the Army as in the church or school. How do they like their work by this time? Is their camp over? Where are they now? If you aren't disgusted with me as a correspondent I'll promise to reply more promptly to your next letter. I've been all upset for a couple of months but am returning to normal now. Give my greeting to my friends, please. Sincerely yours Bob