NEW WAR PHASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1942, Page 3

NEW WAR PHASE

MUST OPEN IN NEAR FUTURE, MR OLIVER LYTTELTON’S DECLARATION. CAN RUSSIA HANG ON? (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 16. “T.N.T.,” which stands for to'day and ;not tomorrow, is a new slogan given to British workers by Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of War Production, speaking at Sheffield. The war was a matter of time, the Minister said, and every little bit of extra production we could get out now shortened the time before we would be able to welcome our victorious troops back home. Mr Lyttelton recalled his warning a few weeks ago that the country was about to pass through eighty of the most critical days in history, and added that nineteen or twenty of these days still remained. He continued: “At the end of that time the war will definitely begin to enter into a new phase. We are approaching the breathless moment when, if Russia can hold on to her present positions for a few more weeks, the balance will begin to swing in our direction, and when the gathering forces of the greatest allj-

ance the world has ever seen are going to give us our first evidences of victory.”