SOUTH AFRICA: General Jan Smuts addresses audience at the Guildhall (1943)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit South Africa Prime Minister General Jan Smuts addresses at an audience at the Guildhall. Full Description: ENGLAND: London: Guildhall: INT General Jan Smuts (South African Prime Minister) to podium and speaking SOT - No election is needed to prove that the British people are united to a man behind the greatest leader they have ever had, the leader of whom, it is now amusing to recall, a gentleman prominent in your public life told me only a couple of years before this war that he had no party, no followers, and no hope of future leadership. The battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein mark the real turning points in this war and will rank in history with the other decisive battles of the world. The destruction of the Germany army at Stalingrad sent a shiver and a shock right through the entire German line from end to end of