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and the presence Of these weapons
played an appreciable part In the
ruin Of Rommels army at the Battle
OF El Alamein and in the long re-
treat which chased him back to
Tunisia.
At this time. June Of. last year,
June. 1912, when was here last, at
this. time also there lighted up those
trains OF thought and study which
produced the memorable American
and British descent upon French
Northwest. Africa, the results of
which are cause of general rejoic-
ing today. We have certainly a most
encouraging example here of what
can be achieved by British and
Americans working together. hand
in hand In fact. one might almost
feel that II they could keep 1t up
there is hardly anything they could
not, do, either In the field of war or
in the not less tangled problems of
peace.
Africa Classic Example 5'#
OF Way to Make War.
History will acclaim this great en-
terprise as a classic example of the
way to make war. We used the
wea pom of sea power. the weapon in
which we were strongest, to attack
the enemy at our chosen moment,
and at our chosen point In spite
of the immense elaboration of the
plan and the many hundreds of
thousands. even, who had to be in
formed of its main outlines. we
maintained secrecy and effective
surprise.
eve confronted the enemy with a
situation in which he had either to
lose invaluable strategic territory or
to fight under conditions most costly
and wasteful to him. We recovered
the initiative which we still retain.
We rallied to our side French forces
which are already q brave, and will
presently become, a powerful army
under the gallant Gen. Giraud.
We have secured bases from
which violent attacks can and will
be delivered by our airpower on the
whole of Italy with results which no
one can measure but which must
certainly be highly beneficial to our
affairs. We have made an economy
in our strained and straitened ship
| ping position worth several hum
dreds of great ships and one which
will give us the advantage Of far
swifter passage through the Medi-
terranean to the East. to the Middle
East, and to the Far East.
We have struck the enemy a blow
which is the equal Of Stalingrad and
most stimulating to our heroic and
heavily engaged Russian Allies. And
all this, Mr.. President. gives the lie
to the Nazi and Fascist thought
that parliamentary democracies are
incapable OF waging effective war
Certainly we shall furnish them
with further examples.
Grateful to Intuition
OF Corp. Hitler.
True, am free to admit that in
North Africa we built better than
We knew. The unexpected came to
the aid of the design and multiplied
the results, for which we have to
thank the military intuition of Corp
Hitler. -..
You may notice, as predicted in
the House of Commons three months
ago, the touch OF the master mind
The vain, insensate obstinacy which
| condemned Field Marshal Won Paul.
us and his army at Stalingrad has
brought this new catastrophe upon
our enemy in Tunisia.
We have destroyed or captured
considerably more than a quarter OF
a million of the enemy's best troops
together with vast masses OF ma
terial, all Of which had been ferried
across to Africa after paying heavy
toll to the British submarines and