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MIDDLE EAST

GREATEST BATTLEFIELD OF HUMANITY

SMUTS ADDRESSES HAPPY WARRIORS.

MUSSOLINI'S BUBBLE DREAM BURST.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, August 17

In a tiny R.A.F. messroom in the Western Desert Field-Marshal Smuts delivered a speech to the men he called his “happy warriors.’’ the men of the South African Air Force, states the Air Ministry news service. He forecast that the Middle East and the Mediterranean would be the greatest battlefield of humanity and paid a tribute to the co-operation between the R.A.F. and the South African Air Force.

Field-Marshal Smuts said: "Through your co-operation and the joint effort which has animated you, wonderful things have been done in the Sudan, East Africa and Abyssinia. This is one of the outstanding features of the war and has led to continuous success. The R.A.F. and South African Air Force have played a vital part in pricking the bubble of Mussolini’s dream of an African empire, which was a menace to all. We in the Union shall make our contribution in manhood and material, in cleverness and stoutness of heart. Think of the times ahead when you men of the democratic countries will produce results to the everlasting benefit of the whole world.”

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410819.2.34

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
200

MIDDLE EAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5

MIDDLE EAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5

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