FAITH IN VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 5

FAITH IN VICTORY

DECLARED BY GENERAL SMUTS

REPLY TO GENERAL HERTZOG. CLAY FEET OF GERMAN COLOSSUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CAPE TOVZN. August 29. The Prime Minister. General Smuts, replying in Parliament to General Hertzog’s motion for the immediate restoration of peace with Italy and Germany said: “We are not going to be deflected from our course by a victorious Hitler. The German Colossus had feet of clay' in the last war and. after winning for four years, collapsed in a few months.”

Britain, he sa'id, controlled the sea and would soon gain the supremacy in the air. South Africa would prosecute the war till victory was achieved. Kenya and other British colonies were the military borders of the Union, and the Union intended to defend them.

Basing his remarks on the argument that Britain’s position is hopeless and the war is already lost, General Hertzog declared that if peace were not concluded Afrikanders would soon take the law into their own hands.

General Smuts replied: “I am still confident of Britain’s ultimate victory.”

General Smuts submitted an amendment reaffirming the Government’s war policy.

A supplementary Budget provides for an extra tax of threepence a gallon on petrol and raises the postage from one penny to three-halfpence.