POSSIBLE ADVICE ON WAR
Rec. 10.10 a.m. LONDON, October 6.
While Field-Marshal Smuts is in Britain preliminary arrangements will be .made for the meeting of Dominion Prime Ministers which Mr. Churchill foreshadowed in a recent speech, says the Press Association's diplomatic correspondent. Field-Marshal Smuts may pay a short visit to America. His arrival in Britain only a short time before the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Moscow is no coincidence. There is a belief in London that the underlying purpose of the Visit is Mr. Churchill's great reliance on Field-Marshal Smuts's judgment in world affairs. Mr. Churchill may have called him in to advise on. complex problems facing the United Nations in the coming months. It is also understood that Field-Marshal Smuts came to London to discuss the role South African troops can play in the battle for Europe. When he was travelling to England he told the 6th South African (Armoured) Division at Cairo: "The final battle will be fought on the Continent, and you will be there. The hardest and bloodiest battles lie ahead."
There has been no official mention of the South African troops for many months, and a description of FieldMarshal Smuts reviewing an armoured division in Cairo indicates at least part of what has been done with them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 5
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