VICTORIA CROSS
U.S. Disregard Found (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 18. The Americans had shown less that their usual generosity over the second bestowal of the Victoria Cross in less than a year on an Australian killed in action in Vietnam, the “Daily Telegraph” said today. The newspaper’s “London Day by Day” column said: “Yesterday’s news of Major Peter Badcoe’s posthumous award was not carried in either the New York or Washington papers. “The “Daily Telegraph’s” American staffs did not hear it on either radio or television and the Australian Embassy said it had seen no mention. "This silence is in sharp contrast with the publicity given to recipients of the highest United States decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honour. “Particularly as this is not the British Commonwealth's war.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31504, 19 October 1967, Page 17
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129VICTORIA CROSS Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31504, 19 October 1967, Page 17
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