GENERAL SMUTS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 5

GENERAL SMUTS

A NATIONAL CONTRAST,

{United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 2.

Picturing the Empire as a Commonwealth in which the smaller nationalities such as the Dutch in South Africa and the French-Canadians in Canada, had full sway towards the development of their cultures and national aspirations, General Smuts addressing the Canadian Club on Thursday contrasted the British system with the United States melting pot system, where the ideal of Government institutions was to turn out Americans on the same standards and with the French idea of colonial development. In Africa the idea was to create French Moors, French Negroes, French Berbers.. This development of iree peoples with free peoples, with a common link binding but not shackling them, meant a fourth of the human race lived in harmony. He felt this example sufficient reason to believe in tho future of the League of Nations. If a fourth of'the peoples, different in culture, color and religion, iid’abitiim nil the continents of the world could live without armies and navies against each other, surely there is the hope for other British peoples should see that ill sentiment, loyalty and all other ties the people of the Empire were more closely bound together,