EMPIRE TALKS
SOLIDARITY SEEN
FACING COMMON PERIL
DESTINY INVOLVED
AFRICAN OPINIONS
REACTION OF PUBLIC
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Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY. Oct. 21. Interviewed in London, the South African Minister of Native Affairs, Colonel D. Reitz, who was the first Dopiinion Minister to arrive in Britain for the discussions with the British 'War Cabinet, said that the meeting in assembly of the Dominion Ministers was a gesture of Imperial solidarity.
In South Africa, they realised' that “if the unthinkable happened and Germany were to emerge victorious, we smaller nations in die Dominions would go the way of Poland. Czechoslovakia and others and we in South Africa more particularly have certain knowledge that the destiny of the Union is more closely involved than perhaps any other portion of the Empire.”
He spoke also of two movements springing spontaneously from South African people without any government prompting, one to provide a warship and the other to provide ti 1.000.000 in cash.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 7
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