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Complacency has no place in newspaper

ON LIBERATION DAY, to read such an article! [German occupiers’ rules were strict but fair, 8 May] Certainly, the one who wrote that article did not live during the Occupation – or is German. Strict but ‘fair’? Ask an Alderney prisoner if they were treated ‘fairly’. Complacency helps to justify the Occupation, bad treatments... even if some Germans were, as individuals, human, when you are subject to occupation, you must show, like in the French book from Vercors, The Silence Of The Sea (Le Silence De La Mer), not any approval of sympathy. During a war your enemy stays your enemy.

Readers' Letters|May 13, 2020
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We cannot afford four more years of this governance

WE ARE now informed that this States wishes to increase annual taxation by £132m. per annum plus, possibly, another £40m. to settle civil service pay claims. So a cool £172m. pa in total. On a per capita basis that means £2,774 per annum per head of the population. Not per taxpayer, but per person, so includes babies and grannies. To put that in context, government General Revenue Income was £452m. in 2018 (up from £413m. in 2016, a nine per cent increase over two years).

Readers' Letters|Jan 22, 2020
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