“Retaliation was certain if we carried the war into Germany…Yet, because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic offensive, we have shrunk from giving our great decision of May, 1940, the publicity which it deserved. That surely, was a mistake. It was a splendid decision. It was as heroic, as self-sacrificing, as Russia’s decision to adopt her policy of ‘scorched earth’…It could have harmed us morally only if it were equivalent to an admission that we were the first to bomb towns.”
– Principal Assistant Secretary of Air Ministry J.M. Spaight in his 1944 book, Bombing Vindicated
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