OTTAWA PACT
SOUTH AFRICAN GRIEVANCE
CAPE TOWN, May 2.
The Minister of Defence, Mr. O. Pirow, in the Assembly, said the Ottawa Pact gave Britain a market in the Union but tha^ Britain did not give South Africa a market. In the present negotiations with Britain the Union was explaining that it most firmly desired a change. It would be investigated whether it was worth/ while continuing the agreement or making a similar agreement unless effective preferences were obtainable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 10
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79OTTAWA PACT Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 10
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