THE BRITISH ARMY.
Sir,-Your correspondent Helen Bretherton would have been wiser to wait until she could read Bless ’Em All before venturing to discuss your review of the book. She may have answered an imaginary criticism of the morale of the
New Zealand Division in the Middle East: she has not even begun to answer "Boomerang’s" criticism in Bless ’Em All about the training and morale of the British Army shut up in the British Isles. In fact, "Boomerang" specifically excluded from his strictures troops like those from Australia and'| New Zealand who are serving outside Great Britain and who have something to keep them occupied. As for the jokes about the Blimps in the Army being as harmless as jokes about Scotsmen, your correspondent has not only omitted to read the book: she even appears to have neglected to read your review. For you draw special attention to "Boomerang’s" point that jokes about mothers-in-law do not mean that mothers-in-law don’t exist. Rather the contrary. And that applies also to Scotsmen and Blimps.
ANTI-BLIMP
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 166, 28 August 1942, Page 3
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