BRITISH HESITANCY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 4

BRITISH HESITANCY

ENEMY ALLOWED TO MAKE EVERY MOVE CONTENTIONS OF ANOTHER CRITIC. ROMMEL BECOMES BOGEY TO “HIGH-UPS.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. The British United Press Cairo correspondent, Mr Richard McMillan, says: “We sat down and allowed the enemy in Libya to make every move. Even our decision to try to hold, or to evacuate, Tobruk was typical of our hesitancy. We at one time made up our minds to abandon it for reasons which cannot be discussed at present. “Then came a quick change. The idea was that we should regroup our strength outside Tobruk, launch ourselves on the enemy’s back and raise the siege before the situation inside the perimeter became desperate. The plan, which was sound enough, never materialised. . “I say, after seeing all phases of the fighting, that the fault has lain in the general direction of the fighting. General Remmel has become a bogey of the desert and the biggest bogey to too many ‘high-up’ themselves.”