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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 8

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ISOLATION POLICY: SOUTH AFRICAN ANGLES. " Some South African Problems " the title of an address given to-day by Professor J. Y. T. Greig, of Johannesburg, at a luncheon held at Milne and Choyce.'e Reception Hall under the auspices of the Koyal Empire Society. Mr. E. E. Vaile presided. Professor Greig said it was difficult for British ]>eople to understand why other people did not share their outlook and sentiments, but the British were not pood at seeing another point of view One could not ask for better companions than the Afrikanders. The British did not understand nis background anil history, as he came of a long line of hard CalvinSstic self-reliant farmers, who.wiehed to lie left alone and distrusted Imperialism. The British took the sentimental tie of Empire for granted, and that was what the Afriekander resented. He did not understand why «»o much of the gold revenue should be paid over to the bond-h'olders in England, and wae apt to say that it would have been better not to develop the mines to the extent that they were develoj>ed. Professor Greig said the Afrikander* lived close to the veldt, having left Europe to seek civil and religious freedom. Their policy was one of isolation. All that the Afrikander asked was to be left alone, but it was not a practical view in a modern world for a nation to be isolated.