GREAT SIGNIFICANCE
ATTACHED TO WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY CEREMONY IN GREAT BRITAIN. COMRADESHIP EMPHASISED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.17 a.m.) RUGBY, February 23. George Washington’s birthday has this year a greater significance than usual in Britain, owing to the presence of American forces. The occasion was epitomised in a meeting yesterday of eighty British and American troops at Sulgrave Manor, in Northamptonshire, the home of Washington’s ancestors. The British were specially selected after taking an army education course, including a study of America and the Americans who came from British airfields where the American Army Air Force was operating. The comradeship between the two nations was the theme of the speeches made by both the British and American representatives.
The “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on the meeting, said emphasis was laid by the different speakers on the fact that much has yet to be learnt and much endured before the war is won. A disavowal of any desire to tell another nation how it should win the war can be made with equal heartiness by the British and American peoples.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1943, Page 4
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179GREAT SIGNIFICANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1943, Page 4
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