AMERICAN TRIBUTE
AUSSIES TRUE TO FORM LANDING AT SINGAPORE “LIKE GOING TO FETE” (Reed. Feb. 26, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The New York Herald-Tribune, in' an editorial, says: “This war may not be exactly like the last war, but the Aussies are certainly true to form, when they landed at Singapore they drowned the band until they played ‘Roll Out the Barrel.’ “The Australian style of going to war is very like the American. It is, as a French general once described it: ‘lt is as if they were going to a fete.’ “There is no translation possible for la gloire in Australian, but if the Cockney dialect of Sydney could be used for a literal translation of the word, it well knows what it means, as Libya has shown and Singapore will show if need be.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 26 February 1941, Page 7
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