HERTZOG'S POLICY CHALLENGED.
General Smuts’s Stand. BITTER DEBATE PROCEEDING. i .By Cabla —Praia Auocla.lon—-Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Amooiatlon (Received April 28, 5.6 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April. 27. A bitter debate is proceeding in the Assembly on the Government’ a budget. General Smuts declared: "We' will not acquiesce in any, policy which places the Empire behind other countries. When our day. comes, we will reverse; the Government’s policy and see that Britain is treated as she should be. He moved that the Estimates be referred baok with instructions to submit amended tariff proposals, recognising the principle that Britain should enjoy preference above foreigners. Mr Cresswell (Lahour Leader) replying, argued that General Smuts was advocating a policy of the Sixteenth Gentury> that the DomihionS should be run for the economic profit of Britain, which . lost her ' the American colonies. V
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 29 April 1925, Page 9
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