ANTI-WAR MOTION LOST

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1940, Page 7

ANTI-WAR MOTION LOST

SOUTH AFRICAN DEBATE

GENERAL HERTZOG EXPLAINS

WANTS A GENERAL

PEACE

IBy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

CAPE TOWN, January 27

General Hertzog's motion to end the state of war with Germany was defeated in the House of Assembly by 81 votes to 59.

General Hertzog,; in a statement after the vote was taken, said he did not J want ,a. separate peace with Germany but a general peace among all the belligerents. <

The Minister of Mines, Colonel Stal- ; lard, said there had been a real danger of a German ' attack on South-west |Africa. He added, that the former Defence Minister, Mr. O. Pirow, had actually asked him to command a force to combat an imminent attack. General Hertzog should have indicated what would be the fate of South-west Africa, Tanganyika, and other parts should Germany be triumphant.

Mr. Havenga, who was Finance Minister in General Hertzog's Government, said no reason had emerged for the.Union's"participation in the" war. It was a mockery for General Smuts to say it was the Union's duty to enter the war. The same . reason was advanced iri 1914, and it showed that constitutional developments since the war had been ignored.

No account was taken, said Mr. Havenga, of the Union's history of population .problems when it was asserted that South Africa should go to war because Australia, and New Zealand had done so. He hoped the nations would end "the foolish and futiie war before too much blood and treasure has been spilled." . . A dissident section in General Hertzog's p,arty has reached an agreement with Dr. Malan's Nationalist Party to form a united opposition in the House" of Assembly.