POLICY REENDORSED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 6

POLICY REENDORSED

BY SOUTH AFRICAN ASSEMBLY ACTIVITIES OF NAZI ORGANISATION. REVELATIONS BY GENERAL SMUTS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day. 1 p.m.) CAPE TOWN. February 7. The Assembly re-endorsed General Smuts’s war policy by a majority of twenty when the Emergency Regulations Bill passed the second reading. General Smuts, revealing the activities of the Nazi Auslandcr organisation, said it absorbed the bulk of the money collected in South Africa for the relief of Germans. Descendants of Germans were compelled to join it, otherwise they were boycotted and the defaulters' relatives in Germany were threatened with confiscation of their property and imprisonment. The organisation possessed a secret newspaper, also an arbitrator who usurped the jurisdiction of the regular courts. The Government, operating on the list of Nazi membership, had expelled, interned or would intern all included in it. The Government had taken over the regulations from Mr Pirow (former Minister of Defence) who had planned martial law against his British fellow citizens. Nobody would be commandeered to assist countries in the far north but Kenya and Tanganyika would not be left in the lurch. South Africa, who would soon have its own fleet, could not always rely on the British Navy. Meanwhile, aeroplanes and mechanical transport had altered the situation. The Union must defend herself far from her borders. The Union was not immediately endangered. It’s defence force numbered fifty thousand while adequate volunteers were available. Only the latter would, in the event of necessity, leave South Africa.

DR. MALAN’S MOTION DEFEATED IN SOUTH AFRICAN ASSEMBLY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) CAPE TOWN. February 7.

Dr F. S. Malan’s motion, calling upon the South African Assembl} 7 to refuse the introduction of the Emergency Regulations Bill was defeated by 76 votes to 56.