Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… disagree with the contemporary National Party supporters who saw it as a "deurmekaarspul van allerlei uiteenlopende … also known Smuts supporters, and K, Rood (Vereeniging), who was revealed to be one after 4 September, were absent … of the woodwork" those MPs, mainly the new intake of 1938, who had not yet had an opportunity to demonstrate publicly …