SOBER CONFIDENCE
NAVY CURBS THE ENEMY. “I am not going to speak to men like you in terms of easy optimism about a speed victory,” said Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a message to the Royal Navy. “The enemy is resolute, well armed and well led. But weighing up all that is involved, as I have to do ,and studying and forming my own opinion on the information which comes before me, I tell you ‘’that we can feel steady and sober confidence in the outcome, based upon solid fact. It is true that we got off to a bad start, badly prepared against an enemy who had been plotting, planning and preparing for six years; in addition to which we were suddenly deprived of the assistance of cur principal ally. It is not surprising in such circumstances that reverses have had to be faced, but the enemy has been forced to pay dearly for them and to accept delay and alteration to his plans for the early victory ho had | always recognised was essential to* him.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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182SOBER CONFIDENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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