11 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

11 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

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Fri, 11 May 1945

Paper says Allies have retreated from Okinawa; also that prisoners of war returning from Germany were mobbed in England - sounds wonderful, yet still unreal to us here.

I think I'll have to be a Pacifist really because it's the only way I can see, yet still want to be intensely nationalistic and patriotic, therefore go to meeting to try to learn how to reconcile the two.