SIR HOWARD KIPPENBERGER
ON THE WAR Sir, —I would question Sir Howard Kippenberger’s statement that the war was won “without excessive loss of life.” As a member of a family which suffered loss in the war, I would say that the price Ne\y Zealand paid—lo,ooo dead—was appalling. Maybe generals think differently; but the total losses of the British forces, the Mercantile Marine, and civilians in Great Britain were tragically high. And. to those of us who lost relatives at Cassino, Sir Howard’s statement that “Cassino was a mistake” is cold comfort.—Yours, etc., BRITISHER. December 13, 1948. [The phrase would be more fairly quoted in full: “without excessive loss of life, especially in comparison with the war of-1914-18.” —Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25677, 14 December 1948, Page 7
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