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

64 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

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The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs2 to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

6 August 1942

Your telegram of 5 August. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are most grateful to the New Zealand Government for their decision to despatch further reinforcements for their Division in the Middle East, in spite of their preoccupations with the defence of New Zealand with which we fully sympathise. We ask you to accept our warm thanks and assure you that this further proof of New Zealand's readiness at all times to co-operate with us is the more highly valued.

Mr. Nash has been informed.

2 Rt. Hon. C. R. Attlee. At this time Mr. Churchill was in Egypt on his way to Moscow for conversations with M. Stalin.

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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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