World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: In the Thirtieth Year?

In London a year ago, South Africa's Prime Minister & Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts made this prophecy "I view this war as . . . perhaps another Thirty-Years' War, which began in 1914, was interrupted by the armistice of 1919 . . . was resumed with greater ferocity in 1939, and may continue—who knows?—until 1944."

In London last week, on a trip which may include a visit to the U.S., Jan Smuts said:

> "We may confidently reckon on still further advances, especially in southern and southeastern Europe, and by the coming winter we shall have closed in upon Hitler's...

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