A Call To Arms Marshal Smuts Aka A Call To Arms By Field Marshal Smuts (1943)

Full title reads: A CALL TO ARMS BY FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS. South Africa. Various shots of Field Marshal Smuts reviewing veterans of the Boer War who are on horseback. He reviews some other troops in his Call to Arms drive. General Smuts makes speech (natural sound): You see today what is probably the greatest military display ever staged in South Africa. It is a Call to Arms. It is a great recruiting drive. It is a renewed drive for war service and for keying up the spirit and the will of our people to a maximum effort in the further prosecution of the war. We know now that we can win, but we also know that the winning may mean the heaviest land fighting of the whole war. No mistake could be worse, could indeed be more fatal, than for us or any of the allies to sit back or go easy at this stage, under the impression that our job is mostly done and that final victory is nearer in sight. It is not, and victory will mean greater efforts than we have made so far. It is under these circumstances and wi