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Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II

198 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

198
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

5 February 1943

Yesterday I watched with the greatest pleasure and admiration some 12,000 men of the New Zealand Division parade and march past near Tripoli under my old friend Bernard Freyberg, their brilliant and heroic commander. The impression made upon me by those splendid troops gave me the utmost confidence in the part they will play in the near future, and all my feeling of gratitude to New Zealand for the high and broad strategic conception which has enabled her sons to fight in the vanguard of the victorious Desert Army was renewed.1

1 A similar report on this parade was received by the Minister of Defence from General Freyberg, who described it as ‘the most impressive and moving parade of my whole career.’