Economic conditions of the Union of South Africa After World War I

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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Institute of African Research and Studies, Aswan University

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South Africa's economy contributed to World War I in some important ways and while the volume of materials and financing was a small fraction of what the British were able to secure from their more loyal settlers such as Australia or New Zealand, the Union responded to the needs of the Allied war effort not only by guaranteeing gold reserves of London's major strategic asset, but by supplying food and other products to troops on distant battlefields as a field South Africa boasted that a few months after the end of the war, that the "consumption of food" had been "greatly increased" by the "enormous armies in the field"South AfricaSouth Africa's economy contributed to World War I in some important ways and while the volume of materials and financing was a small fraction of what the British were able to secure from their more loyal settlers such as Australia or New Zealand, the Union responded to the needs of the Allied war effort not only by guaranteeing gold reserves of London's major strategic asset, '

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