New Order at the Cape

Grey River Argus, 4 June 1948, Page 5

New Order at the Cape

CAPETOWN, June 3. South African Republican flags of the old Boer Republic before the union in 1910 were the only emblems to be seen when the train carrying Dr Malan from Capetown arrived at Pretoria. The car taking Dr Malan to see the Governor-General was decorated with four Republican flags. Dr Malan told correspondents: “South Africa is our own now, and will stay our own”. Mr N. C. Havenga, leader of the Afrikander Party and a likely member of the new Government, said: “We want to co-operate with Britain and achieve a peaceful revolution”. WASHINGTON, June 3. The Post, in a leading article on the South African election result, said: The South African Nationalists are extreme racists who believed in Hitler’s theories long before Hitler expressed them. A Government intending to turn the clock back is bound to command interest far beyond its jurisdiction. Racism and nationalism as a compound for a Government s policy seem bound to invite both at home and abroad. General Smuts may be spared to preach his holistic approach, as he has called it, in other lands, while his own land is experimenting with the opposite. Jarrold’s “Dictionary of Difficult worus savs that holism is “the philosophical theory that evolutionary factors are entities and not constituents”.