“WE ACTED RIGHTLY”
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAR FUTURE PROPITIOUS FOR RACIAL PEACE GERMANY’S AIM OF WORLD DOMINATION (Official Wireless) Received Nov. 4, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 3 General Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, in a message to the South African newspaper Democrat, writes: “As the weeks pass I am becoming more convinced than ever that we acted rightly in entering the war. The declared policy of Nazi Germany is not only to dominate the continent of Europe but also to recover the former German possessions in Africa and expand them and so become the most powerful State on earth. “We should be foolish to stand hack with folded hands awaiting the hour when Germany attacks South-west Africa. Then it would be too lute. lam certain that if we all do our duty as men and brothers the future is propitious for racial peace and much better unity than we have ever known. “With undiminished belief and pride in our African nation I ask for your faithful support in these anxious times.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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173“WE ACTED RIGHTLY” Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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