NO EARLY COLLAPSE
GERMANS GCiNG TO FIGHT HARD
NAIROBI, Dec. 11
" The Americans are coming like an avalanche," said-General Smuts'in an interview. "1 do not share the belief that the German people will §pon collapse. They are going to fight hard. Nevertheless, I am supremely confident for these reasons: First, the U-boat is beaten; second, the enormous effect on Germany of our terrific bombing; third, the phenomenal Russian successes; fourth, the reopening of the Mediterranean. Our bombing is the most considerable contribution to victory," said General Smuts. "We are now making'it really a blow at the heart of the Reich."
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Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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