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...recover lost German South-West Africa and the rest of the Union of South Africa would be left free to make its own choice. The joker in that was that before the choice was made the Axis might impose on South Africa somebody like onetime Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who never wanted to fight Germany in the first place...
...Berlin the High Command announced that South African harbors are being mined by German naval units. This and The Netherlands' invasion made the Dutch blood of the Boers boil. Even Vaderland, organ of Anglophobe Opposition Leader General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who was voted out of office when he tried to keep South Africa from declaring war on Germany, last week said of the invasion of The Netherlands: "This great crime will be repaid by history...
...Eire-which despite its rugged individualism is still a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations-seethed with anti-English feeling (see col. 2). Canada, in the throes of an important election, lost her Governor General (see p. 27). In the Union of South Africa former Prime Minister James Hertzog, who recently defended Adolf Hitler's policies and, like the Führer, blamed the Versailles Treaty for the war, worked to convert the Union into a republic, urged a separate peace with Germany. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, who said General Hertzog's speech sounded like Mein...
Another Terrible Infant of the Dominions also acted up. South Africa's former Prime Minister and present Opposition Leader General J. B. M. Hertzog, who plugs for independence from Britain and who is an even bitterer rival of Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts than Mitchell Hepburn is of Mackenzie King, introduced a motion before the Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week...
...after Prime Minister Hertzog told the House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to-66) the Union scrambled on the Empire war-wagon, hellbent for the precipice...