TOBRUK AND THE SOOTHSAYERS
Sir,-May I congratulate you on your article "Tobruk and the Soothsayers?" For a long time I have wondered when somebody would at last write something of that kind. So far we have been winning the war splendidly, with our mouths, and on the battlefield retreating, retreating, retreating; or father, as our propagandists portray it, winning glorious defeats and allowing the enemy to suffer ign-™minious victories. We have not yet realised that the only foes who have not hopelessly outclassed us are the despised Italians, and we have yet to prove whether we are very much better at the game of war than they are,
We cracked many a joke over the Italian retreat in the first Libyan campaign, but for a complete fiasco I don’t think even the Italians could compete with our performance in Malaya, and the impregnable fortress of Singapore must surely be the greatest joke in history. I certainly agree with you that it is high time we did away with these soothsayers, and woke up, and faced facts.
PHANTOM DRUMMER
(Wanganui),
Sir-A note of congratulation and thanks for Editorial on Tobruk. I think we are all getting sick of being led up the garden path, Your words are timely and mild to what they doubtless could be.
DAVID K.
BOYD
(Queenstown).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 163, 7 August 1942, Page 3
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219TOBRUK AND THE SOOTHSAYERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 163, 7 August 1942, Page 3
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