SMUTS' MESSAGES
British Official Wireless Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, May 9. In a message to Mr. Churchill on the victory in Tunisia, General Smuts, Pi'ime Minister of South Africa, conveyed his country's heartiest congratulations. Tunis and Bizerta, he said, marked the beginning of the end. "I am proud that South Africa is also in this blitz, as it will continue to be to the end, wherever it may finally come," he said. . In a similar message to President Roosevelt, he said: "This feat of arms will prove historic. From now on the Allied tide of victory will roll on until it covers and fertilises our fair world and saves it from a new barbarism."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 3
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