N.Z. TROOPS
GET MOST PUBLICITY. A.I.F. ALMOST IGNORED. Because of excellent publicity carried out by New Zealand officials, English people had come to regard New Zealand troops as the new Anzacs, said Miss B. d’Alpuget, a Sydney journalist who has arrived in Melbourne after sixteen months abroad, states the Melbourne “Herald.”
Most things done by the New Zealanders in Egypt were being widely publicised, but there was hardly a reference to the A.I.F. in London newspapers.
It had made her Australian blood boil, yet no protest had been entered by Australian officials when newspapers devoted columns to Mr Anthony Eden’s visit to the New Zealand camp in Egypt, and made only brief reference to his visit to the Australians. Miss d’Alpuget was one of three British passengers on a Dutch freighter half-way across the Atlantic when war broke out. There were a number of Germans on board who “simply gloated” when they heard the news of the Athenia’s sinking, she said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 2
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