FAITH IN NAVY
SOUTH AFRICA’S SUREST SHIELD
DETERMINATION TO PUT HOUSE IN ORDER. SPEECH BY GENERAL SMUTS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. CAPETOWN, March 28. General Smuts, Minister of Justice, in a speech today, announced South Africa's determination speedily to put her house in order. He declared that the world would not emerge from the present age of brutality till the League of Nations had been re-established. The world, he said, had suffered an immeasurable loss in the downfall of the League. There was in its absence no platforms on which the nations could meet and the position might even deteriorate. An organisation like the League, once broken, was difficult to restore.
General Smuts added that South Africa would do her utmost to safeguard herself. She must maintain the closest touch with other members of the Empire. Her surest shield was the Royal Navy, because freedom must be fought out on the ocean.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1939, Page 5
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152FAITH IN NAVY Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1939, Page 5
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