EMPIRE UNITY
OPINION IN SOUTH AFRICA COLONEL REITZ REACHES LONDON. ' INTERESTS OF DOMINIONS. ißritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 21. Interviewed in London the South African. Colonel Reitz, who is the first Dominion Minister to arrive in Britain for the discussion with the British War Cabinet, said that the meeting of the Dominion Ministers was a gesture ot Imperial solidarity. In South Africa they had realised that “if the unthinkable happened and Germany were to emerge victoriou* we smaller nations in Dominions would go the way of Poland. Czechoslovakia and others, and wc in South Africa more particularly have certain knowledge that the destiny of the Union is more closely involved Hum perhaps anv 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 a million pounds cash.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 5
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