EMPIRE DEFENCE
SOUTH AFRICA’S POLICY NO CONTRACT TO ASSIST BRITAIN DECLARATION BY MINISTER fDnited Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright! (Received 20th October, 9 a.m.) KLERKSDORP, 19th October. Tire South African Minister of Dedence, Mr O. Pirow, in a speech denied that the Union Government had agreed to assist Britain in war-time or to defend the British colonies. “If ever you are called on to take up a rifle because we have a contract with Britain to go to war, I tell you now as Minister of Defence that I give you permission to rebel and refuse to go to war. I shall be the first to rebel in such circumstances.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 October 1937, Page 6
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109EMPIRE DEFENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 October 1937, Page 6
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