BRITAIN IN WARTIME
SOUTH AFRICAN ATTITUDE NO CONTRACT TO ASSIST MINISTER’S "PERMISSION TO REBEL.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 19, 11.55 p.m. KLERKSDORP, Oct. 19. Mr. Pirow, Minister of Defence, in a speech denied that the Union Government had agreed to assist Britain in wartime or defend 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 249, 20 October 1937, Page 7
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