GENERALS DEFENDED
GOOD REASONS FOR DELAY (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8. The representative of the combined American press, in a despatch from the beach-nead south of Rome, quotes a British authority as saying that the reason why the beach-head forces have not pushed on 30 to 40 miles inland will be given when all the facts are known. He pointed out that both the Russian and German field commanders can be told to send a force into a virtually hopeless position, but the Allies are not prepared to do that. “In the months to come the public will have to learp not to criticise generals for taking risks for a very great advantage, even if they have come to grief," the British authority added.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25455, 9 February 1944, Page 3
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