SMUTS CONFIDENT
HITLER’S PLAN GONE WRONG ANTICIPATION OF DECISIVE PHASES. IN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 5. The Prime Minister of South Africa, General Smuts, is returning to Cape Town from his visit to the African war front, during which he had a conference in Khartoum with the Secretary of State for War. Mr Eden, and the officer commanding the British forces in the Middle East, General Sir Archibald Wavell. In a speech in Johannesburg, General Smuts said that at the conference every aspect of the situation in North Africa and the Middle East had been carefully reviewed. “I carried away a reassuring impression of the situation as a whole,” he said. “Now that Hitler’s plan against Britain has gone wrong, the tide of war is flowing to the Middle East and North Africa. Some of the decisive phases of the war may yet be fought out in countries in the Mediterranean basin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 5
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155SMUTS CONFIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 5
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