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

16 — The acting Prime Minister to General Freyberg (Crete)

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The acting Prime Minister to General Freyberg (Crete)

15 May 1941

We have just received your telegram of 11 May. The arrangements proposed by you would be most acceptable to us, and I suggest

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you should take the earliest possible opportunity to discuss the matter with the Prime Minister, whom I will advise. I would be glad also if a copy of your message could be shown to the Prime Minister in Cairo.1

1 In a telegram to Cairo on 17 May General Freyberg repeated for Mr. Fraser's information telegrams Nos. 14, 15, and 16.

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Title: Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939―45: Volume II

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1951, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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