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 central fortress of Europe and be making our dispositions for the grand assault by all arms next year."

>"American manpower [is] our grand strategic reserve in the west . . . while, therefore, every Ally will go all out . . . the United States . . . may have to play the decisive part in the concluding act of the great war drama."

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