“SHAME” INVOLVED
PROPOSAL OF HERTZOG REPUBLICAN CRITICAL (Reed. Sept. 15, 11.30 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG,. Sept. 14. The South African Minister of Native Affairs, Mr. Deneys' Reitz, revealed in a speech that the neutrality decision of the former Prime Minister, General J. B. Hertzog, was taken without consulting either the Cabinet or the party caucus. General Hertzog said: “I am the Prime Minister and have decided this.”
Some of the Ministers unavailingly appealed for four days for reconsideration.
Mr. Reitz added: “Speaking as an old Republican and Boer War veteran, who went to Madagascar rather than submit to the British, I say that neutrality for the Union would have been impossible without shame.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20043, 15 September 1939, Page 7
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