LIRE ON WAR HEROES
SOLDIERS MADE COWARDS OR DRUNKARDS
FREYBERG’S INDICTMENT
United I’. A.—Eg T elegraph—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday,
Lieut.-Colonel B. C. Freyberg, Y.C., formerly of New Zealand, in a speech at Folkestone, said he deprecated most strongly the suggestion contained in the present flood of war books that the people who fought in the Great War - were either drunkards or cow'ards.
Those who were grown up when the war was raging knew that these allegations not true, but the younger generation might well believe that recently-published books presented a faithful picture. Throughout the war he had seen only five men drunk. He did not believe a solitary man was shot for cowardice.
The language oil soldiers might have been rough, but thousands of great-hearted men risked their lives daily. These war books were written from an entirely wrong angle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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139LIRE ON WAR HEROES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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