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FIEbD-MARSHAL SMUTS
LONDON, August 17
Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts re now on their way back to Pretoria after a visit to Egypt where South African troops and auxiliary services were inspected by the South African leader.
In Cairo Field-Marshal Smuts had a series of important conferences with military and civil leaders. He inspected South African troops in the desert and said he did not think it would be necessary for South Africans to serve outside Africa, where there was sufficient work for them to do.
In opening a South African officers' club in Cairo, he said that Armageddon might be fought out in the Middle East and that South Africans would play their part. They were fighting for the most sacred and precious thing in this world.
"A man's life is precious," he said, "but weighed against the cause for which we are fighting it is nothing at all, and we must be prepared to sacrifice our lives and our comfort in oi'der to create a better world."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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