INVALUABLE COUNSELLOR

Evening Star, Issue 24989, 7 October 1943, Page 5

INVALUABLE COUNSELLOR

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. While Field-Marshal Smuts is in Brw tain the preliminary arrangements will be made for the meeting of the dc minion Prime Ministers, which Me Churchill foreshadowed in a recent; speech, says tho Press Association's dipt lomatic correspondent. Field-Marshal Smuts. may pay a short visit to % the United! States. _ His arrival in Britain only a short time . before the t Foreign Ministers' meeting at Moscow is no coincidence. There is a belief in London that the underlying purpose of the visit is Mr Churchill's great reliance on 'the South African Premier's judgment ia world affairs. Mr Churchill may have called him in to advise on the complex problems facing the United Nations in the coming months. It is also understood that he .came ta London to discuss the role which the, South African troops can play in "the; Battle for Europe. When travelling tq England he told tho Sixth South Afrii can (Armoured) Division, at Cairo* "The final battlo will be fought oaths Continent, and you will he there. The hardest and bloodiest battles lie ahead.'J There has been no official mention o|. South African troops for many months, and the description of Field-Marshal Smuts's reviewing an armoured division in Cairo indicates at least part of whalj has been done with them.