POLICY IN EUROPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 5

POLICY IN EUROPE

DOMINIONS NOTIFIED BY BRITAIN BUT NOT ASKED TO APPROVE. STATEMENT BY GENERAL HERTZOG. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, April 13. The Cape Town correspondent of "The Times” says that at the resumption of Parliament today, the Prime Minister, General Hertzog, referring to reports that Mr Chamberlain had stated that the whole Empire had approved the guarantee to Poland, said he doubted the accuracy of the reports. The Dominions had been informed of European developments, but had not been asked to approve any of the steps taken by Britain. He refused the Nationalists’ demand for a foreign affairs debate on the ground that Poland and Albania did not affect South Africa.

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SOUTH AFRICA’S POSITION. DECISION WITH PARLIAMENT.. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright CAPETOWN, April 13. The Prime Minister, General Hertzog, speaking at the resumption of the Parliamentary session today on South Africa’s attitude to the European crisis, later qualified the somewhat unfavourable atmosphere created by his earlier remarks by declaring that because Soutn Africa possessed an independent status entitling her to be neutral in wartime, it did not follow that she must break off all connection with Britain, her greatest friend. He would be the last to do anything toward breaking that friendship. He added that the Union’s position was the same as Canada’s whose Prime Minister had declared that the Canadian Parliament must decide about the Dominion’s participation in war.