* From: Leigh Meyers How USA Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:31 pm Opinion: Sherwood Ross "From Guernica to Hiroshima: How America Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians" http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00270.htm by Sherwood Ross
When Adolph Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, the slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned in Great Britain and the United States. Winston Churchill, England's wartime Prime Minister, wrote in "The Gathering Storm,"(Houghton Mifflin), "Germany in particular used her air power to commit such experimental horrors as the bombing of the defenceless little township of Guernica." More than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded in that assault by Hitler's Condor squadron. ^^^^^^ CB: I believe Winston Choochoo organized bombing of civilians in Iraq in the twenties. I think he must have been outraged at bombing European civilians, or something.
