PLACING THE BLAME
ITALIANS DEBATE DEFEAT POLITICIANS & SOLDIERS AT ODDS. REJECTION OF GRAZIANI’S EXCUSE. / (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 24. Disagreement between soldiers and politicians which the Italian people must inevitably find confusing still persists as to the cause of the Libyan debacle. Marshal Graziani in his recent long apologia to Signor Mussolini,, explained that his own offensive,'for'which all the preparations were completed, was held up by the non-arrival of mechanised forces from Italy. The Rome radio yesterday in effect denied the validity of this excuse by asserting that Marshal Graziani’s resources were sufficient for a campaign and accordingly he was not in need of supplies. The announcer added the somewhat obscure remark: “The times are past z when generals lay on their soldiers the blame for an unfortunate episode which may happen in any war.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19401226.2.54.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
136PLACING THE BLAME Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in