FATAL POLICY
NEUTRALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
PREMIER’S DECLARATION. DEFENCE OF SOUTH-WEST INTERESTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, September 14.
“We cannot wait until the steamroller is on us,” declared General Smuts, in a message to the people on the Union’s war decision. He added that a policy of neutrality would be fatal to South Africa. Germany could not be allowed without a fight to acquire a base from which the Union could be threatened, either by peaceful penetration or by war. The Union’s role would be the protection and de? fence of the Union, its interests in? eluding South-West Africa'.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 6
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105FATAL POLICY Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 6
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