NAVY CURBS THE ENEMY
“ 1 am not going lo speak lo men like vou in terms of easy opUmjsm about a speedy victory ' said Mr A V Alexander j-'irsl Lord of the Admiralty in a message to the Royal Navy “The enemy is resolute well armed and well led But weighing up all that is involved as 1 have to do and studying and forming my own opinion on the information which £omes before me I fell vou that we can feelsteady and sotjer confidence in the outcome, based upon solid fact It is true thai we got oil to a bad start, badly prepared against an enemy who had been plotting planning and preparing for six vears: in addition to which we were suddenly deprived of the assistance of our principal ally ft is not surprising in such circumstances that reverses have had to be faced but the enemy has been forced 'o pay dearlv for them and to accept delay and alteration to his dlans for the early victorv he had always recognised was essential to him "
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24710, 12 September 1941, Page 3
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