"DISHONOURABLE"
MOVE BY GEN. HERTZOG
WITHDRAWAL FROM WAR
PREMIER'S RESPONSE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received June 21, 1.45 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, June 20. The Premier, General Smuts, described as dishonourable a written ! proposal from the former Premier, General Hertzog, that South Africa should "immediately take all necessary measures to withdraw from the war." General Hertzog, in a letter to General Smuts, protested "against the reckless risk to our national freedom and the senseless sacrifice of Afrikander youth in a fruitless struggle."
General Hertzog demanded on behalf of the Afrikanders an immediate withdrawal from the war. He declared that a peaceful but determined mass of protest was now required against compulsion for the furtherance of the war effort. "In view of the present feeling," he wrote, "further compulsion may* lead to far-reaching disturbances for which the Government has to bear the responsibility. The Allied cause was doomed to failure after the capture of Paris."
General Smuts replied that Parliament had already decisively rejected this dishonourable proposal and, if it was submitted again, it would suffer the same fate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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