CURVES—AS ITALIANS SEE THEM
'When I "was watching Llie Italian prisoners being handed out tlieir rations for the night, they stopped to pick up the tiniest crural) of biscuit, -which may have fallen. One Italian said: "Italian like this," with his two hands outlined a thin moagre figure; then with his paunch stuck full out lie said, "German like this" —a little exaggerated perhaps, but fundamentally true.'—Bruce Anderson in a BBC talk on 'Prisoners released at Halfaya').
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 51, 11 May 1942, Page 6
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77CURVES—AS ITALIANS SEE THEM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 51, 11 May 1942, Page 6
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