Tribute To N.Z. Troops
Hign irioutc iu Reviewing Geoffrey Cox s book, “The Road to Trieste,” the literary critic of the Daily Express states: Do you remember those square-faced, sharp-eyed, quiet-voiced New Zealander service-men? Do you remember their reputation in Greece, Crete, Lidya, and Italy? “They always seemed at once the most rugged and gentlest of people, highly organised for battle, highly democratic in -their way of life. They were never shooters. Morg often they were the ; sort of people who made you feel., better for knowing them. This an eloquent book about one of tneu achievements, the campaign for Trieste. Almost as if by chance ut , gives a vivid character study of the > great man who led them, Lieutenant?- iS General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C. * —London, October 10.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1947, Page 5
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