JUMPING-OFF GROUND
Why Allies Launched North African Campaign ASSISTANCE TO THE FRENCH British Official Wireless Rec. 10.30 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 8. The British Minister to North Africa, Mr. Harold MacMillan, said in Algiers yesterday, according to a correspondent attached to Allied headquarters, that the Allies came to North Africa to use it as a convenient jumping-off ground to beat the enemy. He also referred to the lessons learnt in North Africa, which he thought would be extremely valuable when "We make Our landing in Europe."
He revealed the economic assistance the Allies were giving the French in North Africa, stating that already 34,000 tons of various commodities, including sugar, soap, flour, rice and cheese had arrived from Britain for the use of the civil population. Two hundred thousand yards of cloth and 200,000 tons of coal had also been brought out for military and civil use. Large convoys, too, were bringing supplies from America. The Allies, Mr. MacMillan added, were getting supplies of phosphates and iron from North Africa.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 33, 9 February 1943, Page 3
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