CHANCE FOR YOUNG COUNTRIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 7

CHANCE FOR YOUNG COUNTRIES

BRITISH EMPIRE'S GREAT RESPONSIBILITY STRIKING SPEECHES By Telegraph-Press Araoefotion-Oopyrtv. _ Cane Town. August 0. Generals Botha and Smuts were entertained at luncheon bv the Administrator, (ifonoral Botha, in a speech, said it would be sheer folly to talk about racialism. The South African Union closed the book of the past and opened a newlwok. Hb urced tho necessity for a development of Industry and bettev snd cheaper shipping facilities. The time had come for a conference of representatives of the Dominions'to discuss '.lie question of tho Dominions' shipping service. Ho hoped the British Government would 6ee tho fairness of allowing South Africa to retain the thirteen prize Bhips poized in South African waters.

General Smuts said threo things ot miftt vital importance stood out as a result of tho war: First, tho immense preponderance of the British Empire, not only physical, but moral. Whatever tho past, whatever the future, tho British JCmpiro was far away the most potent' instrument for cood or evil that had evor existed in tlie world. Second, the rise in wealth and power of tho United States. America was going : to bo tho Kreatest Power to reckon with, apart from the British Empire. Third, tliero was a decline in Europe itself, not only relatively, but intrinsically... Whatever the result to Europe, viofoy or defeat must mean enormous dsbts, dislocation of industry, unemployment, and unsettlemont. Tho young countries were going" to get their chance, among them South iUrica. a tremendous chance, in the immediate future.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.