AMERICAN SYSTEM
ADVOCATED BY SMUTS
DIMIGRATON QUOTAS
(Received ISth February, 1,30 p.m.) ! CAPE TOWN, 17th February.
In a. motion for tho instruction of a Commijtee of the whole House to base the entry of immigrants on the percentage of tho foreign-born population of South Africa, Genef'al Smuts made a fervent appeal to avoid individious distinctions between countries. Ho pleaded for the adoption of the American system, thereby to avoid passing a stigma on. any people.
General Hcrtzog emphatically refused, because he was not prepared to leavo the open door to an clement which might lead to the disruption of the South African nation.
The motion was lost by a majority of twenty.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 11
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