Smuts Sees Victory – After Heaviest Fighting

Northern Advocate, 28 June 1943, Page 3

Smuts Sees Victory - After Heaviest Fighting

RUGBY, June 7

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, June 7. General Smuts, speaking at Johannesburg, said he knew no wthat we could win, but also that the winning might mean some of the heaviest land fighting of the whole war. Even if the desperate Nazi and Fascist leaders had lost all hope of victory, as probably they had, they would continue to fight for a state of universal exhaustion stalemate and a compromise peace. Great Hour Approaching “Victory complete and unconditional is in sight, but the main struggle for it, on the Continent of Europe, is still to come —this year, and perhaps to be continued to a conclusion next year. For that struggle the Allies are marshalling all their manpower and material resources. A great hour is approaching. There is a hush of expectancy in men’s hearts. Immense issues are at stake.”' Eloquent Call To South Africans Appealing to more South Africans not to rest content with the cleaning up to Africa, but to follow the tide of war across the Mediterranean to the final decisive European fronts, General Smuts declared: “Europe calls. Our Springbok prisoners in Italy call us to come and fetch them. We must answer the call not only of our comrades, but also of the small nations now victims of Nazi oppression. The cause of freedom is indivisible, and will not be won finally anywhere, until it is won everywhere.”