HERTZOG’S STAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 5

HERTZOG’S STAND

AGAINST CO-OPERATION WITH EMPIRE PARTICIPATION IN WAR OPPOSED. ATTACK ON GENERAL SMUTS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright CAPE TOWN, November 4. Announcing his leadership of “reconsolidated Alrikanderdoin,” General Hertzog declared that General Snints’s participation in the war greatly contributed to 1 lie annihilation of all bonds will) Britain.

General Hertzog named Dr Malan. the Nationalist leader, as his first lieutenant, and added that the decision of the English-speaking members of Parliament to support General Smuts severely affected the relations between the English-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking sections of the community. So far ns South Africa was concerned, nothing could be more destructive to the maintenance of the Empire than her participation in the war. General Hertzog warned General Smuts that unless South Africa was governed as an independent, free country, her participation in the British Commonwealth of Nations would be of short duration. NAZI PLOT SABOTAGE THROUGHOUT UNION. JOHANNESBURG PAPER'S REPORT. JOHHANESBURG, November 5. The “Star" reports a Nazi plot throughout the Union for general risings, sabotaging of factories and essential services, and German exploitation of mineral resources in Portuguese East Africa.