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BOMBSHELL TO AMERICANS NEW YORK, March 9 Admiral Standley’s announcement that news of America's aid to Russia had been withheld from the Russian people by the Soviet press, came as a bombshell to the Americans. Washington observers believe that Admiral Standley would not have risked a Presidential rebuke by making such a frank statement of His own initiative and they are disposed to think that he acted on an instruction. Mr Sumner Wells is expected to make an official comment soon on Admiral Standley’s disclosure. The chairman of the Foreign AfTars Committee pf ♦he Houte of Representedives, Mr Ploom, sa*d: “Representatives of the Russian Government may hive son® good reason for wrCbhold'na news of cur assistance. To tain cf withholding aid to Russia beoai’QC of Admiral £tsndley’s disclosure would be inexcusable. *' SOLOIEPS COME HOME WELLINGTON. Wednesday A number of them having completed three years’ service in the Middle East, a contingent of 300 invalided New Zealand soldiers recently returned heme and were given a warm welcome rrt arrival at Wellington. They are moat familiar with the El Alamein front and brought back first-hand stories of the terrific artillery barrage that preceded the Eighth Army's historic advance. “We gave Rommel's troops a ternLle battering,'’ said an artillery sergeant. We had 1000 field guns in action at once for two spells of four hours, and the hard desert was tit' rally pounded to dust.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21982, 10 March 1943, Page 3
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