GORT'S DESPATCHES
"ODD TIME" FOR RELEASE DUNKIRK AND RUSSIA LONDON, Oct. 21 "Are we going to let Russia lose her battle because we are terrorised by the awful lesson of Dunkirk?" asks the Sunday Pictorial. The paper supports criticism of the timing of the release of the despatches of the former Com-mander-in-Chief of the 8.E.F., Lord Gort, to synchronise with the demands for a British invasion of the Continent. v * It does seem odd," it adds, "that at a time when the whole nation is clamouring for action to help our allies from crashing to catastrophe we should give an awful warning of what happens to a British expedition that goes abroad without enough tanks and aeroplanes. "For nine months there has been an insistent demand that Lord Gort's own account of why he failed last year should be published. We get it —with its horrible background of caution and calamity—just at the moment when the people are rising with one word on their lips. 'Action.' "Lord Gort lost the Battle of Flanders because his army was not ready. But at least he had courage."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24106, 27 October 1941, Page 8
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