LEAGUE MUST BE BEBORN.
ESSENTIAL TO FREEING WORLD FROM BRUTALITY. GENERAL SMUTS’ APPEAL CAPETOWN, March 2S. General Smuts an non need South Africa’s determination speedily to put her house in order. lie declared that the world would not emerge from it a present age of brutality until the League of Nations was re-established. The world had suffered immeasurable Joss in the downfall of the League. There were in its absence no platforms on which the nations could meet. The position might even deteriorate. An organisation like the League once broken was difficult to restore. General Smuts added that South Africa would do her utmost to safeguard herself by watching her coasts and the air, which were sources of menace. Site must maintain the closest touch with the other members of the Empire. Her surest shield was the Royal Navy, because freedom must be fought out on the ocean.
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Otaki Mail, 31 March 1939, Page 4
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