N.Z.’s Contribution To War
WASHINGTON, March o.
New Zealand’s casualties to the end of October were 20,331, equivalent to proportionately 1,600,000 Americans. Her armed forces equalled an American army of 13,000,000, in addition to a Home Guard equivalent to 8,000,000, said the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee (Senator Bloom), refuting the “Chicago Tribune’s- ’ attack on New Zealand. New Zealand troops fought in Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. Her airmen operated in the Solomons, in Europe, and in England. New Zealand’s taxation was very high. Civilians stinted themselves of a number of foodstuffs in order to supply the Americans. All this was done without grumbling. New Zealand, in 1942, supplied America with half as much mutton on reverse Lend-Lease as American LendLeased to all other countries, and altogether made, for her size, one of the greatest contributions to the avar i effort.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1943, Page 4
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