Doubt of Emy Success Strongly Denounced By South African Premier in Stirring Speech Capetown, July 22.
INSHAKABLE confidence in the ultimate triumph of Britain over Nazi Germany, despite that country's long list of{ spectacular successes, was voiced by General Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, when he broadcast! a stirring speech yesterday to the peoples of Great Britain and the, United States.
The Union Premier strongly denounced those people, who had been influence by German successes and who were making the "profound mistake" of waiting for Germany's final coup-de-grace to Britain, Stressing the unity of the British people under a leadership of unt rivalled brilliance, General Smuts referred his listeners to the m message of the withdrawal of the "tapped" BEF, from Dunkirk which was carried out in face of an onslaught designed to destroy it completely. That onslaught had failed and if Hitler's attack against what he believed. would prove to be the impregnable fortress of Britain failed, then Germany was lost and all Europe and, indeed, the whole world was) saved. 5 Tu his speech General Smuts said he wished briefly to discuss two questions. which he was sure were Uppermost in the minds of millions of people in their free countries, These were: Nistly, what were their prospects at this stage of the war fig he viewed them; secondly, what was the sort of peace they" were striving to rench as a result of the mortal struggle in which they were engaged.
General Smuts emphasized the views he would express were his personal opinions and must not be taken to have any: official character "In, regard to Our prospects," he said, "the Germans so far have had an uninterrupted series of most specta~ ular sticcesses—Poland, "Norway, Holland, Belgium and finally the most colossal, most stunning of all—the sudden, unexpected collapse of France.
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