A GERMAN COMPLIMENT
To the innumerable messages of congratulation which came to Mr. Churchill on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the war correspondent ot me London Daily Telegraph added one unwilling tribute from a German prisoner. As he entered battalion headquarters, under guard, he exclaimed: "I cannot but admire your Churchill. He promised you blood and tears and has given you victory. Hitler promised us victory and has given' us—blood and tears."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 117, 19 May 1945, Page 4
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