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...Freyberg v. "The Boss" Sirs: In TIME (March 6) you quote Winston Churchill: "General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. . . ." General Freyberg, as you may know, is a New Zealander. Rommel characterized them as the finest fighting men among the Nazis' enemies. . . . Freyberg is from Wellington College, New Zealand. . . . After he became a hero at Gallipoli in 1915, Freyberg returned on special leave to New Zealand. He visited Wellington College to talk to the boys who had come behind...
...Boss always concluded his matutinal remarks somewhat as follows: "I should like to see the following in the corridor, immediately after prayers. . . ." On the particular day of Freyberg's visit, I was among The Boss's honored guests on account of a certain amount of low-grade gunpowder, made in the College lab, having been ignited at a most strategic moment under a line of old-fashioned outhouses...
What I recall particularly is that Freyberg rose, after the names of the dav's felons had been announced, to ask that The Boss stay his hand and that the boys, who would otherwise have been soundly beaten in the corridor ... be granted a full pardon. Seeing that he had scored his point, he went full out and asked that the whole college be excused from classes for the rest of the day. It was a lead-pipe tactic. The Boss groaned once in his beard and surrendered...
...Battles of prolonged and intense fierceness have been fought. . . . The enemy has sustained very heavy losses but has not shaken the resistance of the bridgehead army. . . . General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. Alexander says the bitterness and fierceness of the fighting now going on both at the bridgehead and on the Cassino front surpasses all his previous experience.* He even uses in one message to me the word 'terrific...
...only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army's New Zealanders...