DANGER OF WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23346, 15 May 1939, Page 11

DANGER OF WAR

SOUTH AFRICAN FEARS NATIONAL PARTY PROTEST PARTICIPATION OPPOSED (Received May 14, 5.5 p.m.) . CAPETOWN. May 13 The provincial leaders of the National Party have signed a statement directed toward "enlightening those who are unwilling to see South Africa dragged into a threatened war."

The statement, after calling attention to propaganda to render the Union's participation in a war unavoidable, adds: "The Government has thrown off the mask and only awaits a sign from London, although the majority of the people of South Africa desire neutrality. Therefore petitions and meetings of protest should be arranged/ "South Africa must not be plunged into disaster through a weak, slavish and reckless Government. We do not want a repetition of 1914." A women's section of the national register is being organised at Johannesburg.

NAZIS' INFLUENCE SOUTH-WEST AFRICA LONDON. May Yi The Sou tip West African Trades Union Federation, the disaffiliation of which from the International Federation is announced, has a membership of only 18, compared with 600 in 1933, says the Capetown correspondent of the Daily Telegraph The organisation has been djing since Germany Nazified it.

The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph says Mr. Walter Schevenels, a Belgian Trades Union official, emphasised the danger of Nazi pressure on trades unions in former German colonies. Ho said that in South-West Africa the disaffiliation was due to the Nazis controlling the people in the South-Wost. The only recent disaffiliations throughout the world were the result of Nazi pressure.

Nazi propaganda was endangering the local governments of Togoland and the Cameroons.