INVASION OF BRITAIN
«. j CONTRADICTION OF GENERAL I REYBERG’S STATEMENT , London, Oct. 12. { Lieut.-Commander R. T. H. Fletcher, !, Pai I inmentary Private Secretary to L the First Lord of the Admiralty, in a ;.. speech, advised Britain to disregard j r Major-General B. C. Freyberg’s sug- j ( gestion that Britain is unlikely to be i t invaded and heed Colonel Knox, the } U.S. Naval Secretary, who says tnut'j invasion is inevitable. it “General Freyberg says that the j t enemy has m. illusions about the fate ! awaiting an air-borne invasion of Bri- ; tain,” said Lieut.-Commander Fletcher, |i “but he was under a very dangerous I illusion if he means that the 17.000 l casualties which tlr Germans suf- c fered in Crete, of which only 4000 t were killed, will deter Hitler from at- 1 tempting an invasion. I “Hitler has never bee -, deterred by i considerations of human life. The c casualties he is incurring on the East- £ ern Front are the measure of what t Hitler is willing to sacrifice in an attack against Britain.”—U.P.A. 1
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 5
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177INVASION OF BRITAIN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 5
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