That ready and polished speaker, Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens, told a good story the other day.. He said that early in 1940 he was going to see Sir John Dill at his headquarters at Douai. At one point a military policeman stopped him and asked his business. “I am Naval Attache, The Hague,” he answered. “Haig?” the man exclaimed. “You must belong to the last war, not to this.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 7
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69Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 7
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