A LOUD “SEZ YOU!”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 61, 13 March 1942, Page 5

A LOUD “SEZ YOU!”

DISGUSTED JOURNALISTS CONFERENCE IN CAIRO (Read. 9.55 p.m.) London, March 11. The Daily Mail's Durban correspondent, Noel Monks, describes a visit to one of the Cairo military spokesman's Press conferences as one of the worst he has ever attended in five years’ cover of various wars. He said that about a dozen British and American journalists were present. They had all spent two years on various desert and Middle East fronts, and certainly had much more battle experience in .his war than the spokesman himself, who yet addressed the correspondents as though they were children. “He gave a picture of that day's Western Desert situation that even to me seemed wrong, as it happened to be two days later. The spokesman’s classic utterance was a petulant: •You men are writing about Rommel as though he is a great general. He is not!' There was a loud ‘Sez you!’ from the leading American correspondent.” Monks added: “Surely the War Office should slop such nonsense being propagated by high-ranking G.H.Q. officers.”