The Union of South Africa will not oppose Great Britain's lead at Geneva in securing the raising of sanctions against Italy.
"This fact was made clear to-day a speech by Gen. J. C. Smuts, the Minister of Justice, who declared:
"it would be the sheerest lunacy to quarrel with England as the danger of war is very real. The Union of South Africa must stand by the League of Nations until the very end."
(Gen. Smuts declared he. still be-Heved that honest and loyal applica ton of sanctions constituted the mast powerful weapon to conserve the Peace of the world.
The Union of South Africa, he added, should strenuously oppose any Step calculated to weaken the League or interrogate its authority.—Reuter.
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