“CRISIS OF WAR”
FOUR BIG ISSUES ATTACK ON EUROPE PLANS STILL SECRET (British Official Wireless.) (11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 3. “We have now come to the great crisis of the war and in the next few months four tremendous issues will be decided, upon the fate of wjiicli the outcome of the war will depend,” said the Minister of Economic Warfare, the Earl of Selborne, said in a speech in London. The four issues were the Battle of the Atlantic, the impending German attack on Russia, the Allied bombing offensive and the impending Allied invasion of the Continent. Referring to the invasion of Europe, l.lie Minister said: “Herr Hitler does not know where it is going to come. He does not know when it is going to come. The secret has been well kept, like the landing in North Africa. The whole under-belly of the Axis is exposed. The whole top-side of the Axis is also exposed. The attack may come in Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, or Norway, but Herr Hitler does not 'know. ’ ’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 3
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