"New Statesman" comment, 1941

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"New Statesman" comment, 1941

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In the spring of 1941, the New Statesman published the following among editorial comments regarding the British reporting of the Italian invasion of Greece...
"Surely," wrote the sober New Statesman and Nation, "we remember the Times saying something very like this before. When the Germans went into Norway they dangerously lengthened their flank. If they are not careful they will become all flank as far as Gibraltar. ... If the Nazis were to reach London Bridge it would be a British triumph. The Times would explain that by so dangerously lengthening their flank they had stuck themselves in one of the least salubrious parts of London, that they would find it difficult to get a respectable meal in the district and that they would use up a lot of their scanty oil resources in getting the Tower Bridge up and down."
Anyone know what wit wrote this?
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