QUIETLY CONFIDENT
BRITAIN AND WAR PROSPECT
SIR KEITH SMITH'S VIEWS
(Received July 24, 9 a.m.).
LOS ANGELES, July 22
Sir Keith Smith, before leaving by the Monterey, stated that Australia is being prepared as a major source of munitions supply for Britain in the event of war.
"Having just come from Europe," he said, "I can tell you that the position is very critical, but England is now quietly confident that she can handle the situation if it comes."
He expressed the opinion that while the first attack on British and French cities would be terrible, so many Nazi squadrons would be expended that the air war would soon become stalemated to the point where the British fleet and the French army would exert telling pressure.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1939, Page 9
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