Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts managed only by a bare majority to oust the Hertzog Government and lead South Africa into war in 1939. But his Government was committed not to send troops outside the continental borders. Last week, by a vote of 75-to-49 in the Assembly and 21-to-6 in the Senate, Smuts obtained Parliament's permission to have South African volunteers participate in the invasion of Europe. He smiled happily when Senator Sarel François Alberts, an Anglophobe veteran of the Boer War, announced that despite his age (70) he was ready to fight for Africa overseas if the...
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