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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24448, 6 November 1940, Page 9

Though Greeks throughout the world would be troubled by the news that Italy had invaded Greece, they were conscious of their superiority, said a well-known member of the Greek community in Wellington when questioned last night. The Italian Army had rarely proved itself valorous in battle, and when the geography of Greece was considered it did not seem that such fighters as the Italians had the determination or the hereditary staying power necessary for decisive invasion. Italian mechanised units and aircraft could do horrible damage, as witness Abyssinia, but that damage would be a spur—not that the Greeks needed a spur when the identity of their land was at stake —to individual heroism.