Yet if the stoppage of supplies of this kind would be one of the first results of the transformation of the mother country into the stepmother Union, what motive would South Africa have for entering it?
John Morley: “Yet if the stoppage of supplies of this kind would be one of the first results of the transformation of the mother…”
Editor's note · Context
Morley questions the motivations of South Africa in joining a federal union if it leads to reduced support from the mother country.
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