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9.

counting the days for it. But obviously the revenge
cannot be allowed to be a personal affair, & must
be controlled by Governments. Revenge there will
have to be - but God knows what the method is.
It is all very well talking about Hitler & his gang,
but his gang is an enormous one & the German
people must take responsibility for what has
been & is being done. I, personally, do not like
the German people - I think they are dull
& uninteresting & bad mannered & mean & cruel
& their attitude towards women is revolting. And
I never knew the Prussians who are so much
worse. And yet the average Englishman rather likes
the German & they will nearly always, confess to
admiring them. And this outlook is often expressed in
comparison with, & at the expense of, the French.
The Germans are always supposed to be so much
more respectable & "like us" than the French.

I think that after as much punishment as possible
has been meted out to as many of the guilty ones
as possible, we shall have to nurse Germany. It
is obviously useless to merely impose harsh terms &
then gradually relax them until she is strong
enough again to abrogate the balance & begin
another war. She will have to be controlled
in education of the children, the way in which
they teach history & so on - in their films