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In any case, the British public will await events with

patience and confidence. It is a great thing for us to get the invasion over. If it fails, as we believe it will, our strength in the Mediterranean will be enormously increased, and we shall have a large force free for many enterprises, which, however, the Censorship is quite right in forbidding us to discuss. If we suffer defeat in the first attempt to check the invasion, we shall have to fight the enemy step by step in the Delta. That will be an unpleasant experience, bat the Germans are very much mistaken if they think one battle is going to decide the fate of Egypt.

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