VICTORY ASSURED
WAR MAY END SOONER THAN EXPECTED WILL COME SUDDENLY AND SMASHINGLY. GENERAL SMUTS'S BELIEF (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) JOHANNESBURG. December 19. “We still have hard knocks and much hard work ahead, but victory is assured,” said General Smuts, replying to a great civic welcome. “The end may come sooner than expected. Victory will come suddenly and smashingly. It will be there like the dawn, almost before we know it. “I had a magnificent welcome in Britain from their Majesties, Parliament and Mr Churchill, (hat most marvellous of all leaders. “There is nothing wrong with the British people. They stand firm like a rock. We know the British have always been tough and unbreakable. I have never known them tougher than today. With such people we cannot possibly dream, of losing the. war. “I have been in very close touch for five weeks with the war machine Mr Churchill has erected round himself. It is strong enough to win the war.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
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