BRITISH POLITICS.
PRAISE FOR ENGLAND. COMMENT BY GENERAL SMUTS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, December 7. General Smuts was warmly welcomed on his return. He is seriously concerned about the economic future, and said that Ottawa would present the opportunity to extend to South Africa’s markets but it was difficult to get markets as long as she remained in tlie gold stanard, and the German Treaty exists.
He had always respected the solid qualities of British people. Born of long experience, working with them and fighting them to the last ditch, that respect had been heightened by bis experience in the economic crisis.
4‘‘Nothing is fundamentally wrong with the centre of our Commonwealth,” he said. “The national heart is sound, and the national pulse beats wall. The pound has never been worth twenty shillings since the war and was bound to fall. The general election showed that‘the people were determined to S 1 p the country drifting in sight of the breakers, and demanded a thorough reform.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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