PEACE & EQUILIBRIUM.
ON BASIS OF REARMAMENT. GENERAL SMUTS ON WORLD OUTLOOK. SOUTH AFRICA’S POSITION. (Received Monday, 9.0 p.m.') CAPETOWN, May 6. Parliament has been prorogued. Dr. Malan, speaking on the adjournment, expressed the opinion that Britain, France and Italy were drifting towards war and it had become clear that South Africa would be bound to a combination that also would be involved. . General Smuts, replying, warned South Africans not to use European troubles in local political disputes. He said that since the Versailles victors had not disarmed, with the inevitable result that Germany had rearmed, the world would have to find peace and equilibrium on a basis of rearmame' which was now taking place. The Government of 'South Africa had given most ample assurances that its Parlia- [ ment and people should decide what I course the country should take in the event of war and in a last resort world events would decide that issue. ‘‘We are on one of the most important routes in the whole world and if we talk of sovereign independence, surely it is essential to protect our shores against al comers. I do not expect war but let us be prepared.”
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Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1935, Page 5
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