ALLEGED GRISLY JOKE
GERMAN COMMENT ON ANZACS
“JUST POOR IGNORANT COUNTRY LADS”
GRIMACE OF \RROGANCE AND CONCEIT”
(United P’-er.s Assn —Elec Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 14, noon.) BERLIN, February 13
The first German comment on the arrival of the Anzacs is contained in the Lokal Anzeiger, which say-:
“ It is just as well that the New Zealand soldiei> are, as it were, just poor country lads who do not know what it i~ all about, otherwise the whole Continent would lie rocked with laughter. However, that would not have worried the English, because Mr Eden is certainly not bothering himself about where these New Zealanders are going. Their hones will bleach in the desert and moulder on the steppes and bogs.
“ Certainly it will not be easy to invent a grislier joke than Mr Eden’s speech to the New Zealanders. That is what England’s fight for the freedom of oppressed peoples looks like—namely, a grimace of arrogance and conceit."
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21038, 14 February 1940, Page 7
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