A CURB WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 11

A CURB WANTED

DISLOYAL STATEMENTS

FEELING IN SOUTH AFRICA

REPUBLICAN MOVE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received July 18, 10 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, July 17.

There is a growing desire to curb utterances bordering on high treason which are being made at public meetings.

General Hertzog has faithfully observed the political truce but his followers are taking advantage of the forbearance of General Smuts and are not hesitating violently to abuse British policy. The limit was reached when a Parliamentarian, Mr. Van der Mere called a meeting at Bloemfontein for Saturday to take immediate steps in a constitutional manner to bring about a republic.

General Hertzog was not consulted, but his organ stresses the fact that the Nationalist Constitution prescribes that a republic can only be established when the great majority of Europeans

desire it

Another Parliamentarian expressed the hope that the Nazis would shoot the word "great" from Great Britain.

Loyalists impatiently point out that such utterances abuse democracy, but despite them the recruiting rate has been briskly maintained.