The Archive · 1938

Europe for 50 Years SPECIAL TO THE "NDN

Queenstown, Oct. 20. General J. M. B. M. Hertzog, the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, in a speech here today, expressed the view that Mr. Neville Chamberlain had probably brought peace to Europe for the next fifty years.

"If it had not been for Mr.

Chamberlain," he added, "I do not doubt but that by this time Europe would have been visited by ruination to such an extent that European' civilization would for many years have been delayed, and might even have collapsed."—Reuter,

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