SUPREME CONFIDENCE
< Britkh Official Wireless.) (Received May 28. 7.15 p.m.) ’ RUGBY, May 27. The Financial Secretary to the Wav Office. Mr. Arthur Henderson, said today that events in this war had warned us'against undue optimism, but what the armies of the United States had achieved on many battlefrrints , justified our supreme confidence in their ability to measure up to the coming great tasks. The pride we felt today was but a foretaste. of the pride that would be ours later. He added that the victories m eastern Europe and Africa were going to be matched by victories in the south and west. General Alexander and his Fifth and Eighth Armies had given us a sample of theiii and a major catastrophe confronted the German forces in Italy at the present time.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 5
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131SUPREME CONFIDENCE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 5
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