The wool barter arrangement whereby Germany was to take $12,500,000 worth of South African wool in exchange for an equal amount of German goods is on the verge of breaking down, The London Morning Post reported today in a dispatch from Johannesburg South Africa.
Owing to the anti-German boycott in that country, buyers cannot be found for the German products. The Morning Post reported.
Recently Minister of the Interior Jan Hofmeyer appealed to the Jews of South Africa to drop the boycott against Nazi Germany, saying that the government could not but view an organized boycott with misgiving. Soon after the speech an announcement was made that negotiations were well under way with Germany for a barter agreement.
The Minister of the Interior also stated in his address that anti-Semitic propaganda in South Africa and the Grey Shirt Trial in Gramastown had given the government great concern and that legislation to curb anti-Semitism would be introduced by the government.
The Jewish population, however, showed no signs of letting up on the anti-German boycott, making the fate of the barter agreement doubtful.
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