SOUTH AFRICA’S FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9

SOUTH AFRICA’S FUTURE

SMUTS MAKES CONFIDENT SPEECH IN LONDON HIGH HOPES EXPRESSED British Official Wireless Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. General Smuts, who is visiting England to deliver the Rhodes lectures at Oxford University, gave an address on South Africa’s future in London last night. He said that, in spite of all their historic difficulties, great, progress had been made toward a better understanding and better national relations, and he was hopeful that this progress would be maintained. They had very difficult problems before them, which concerned not only South Africa itself but also the young British nations now growing farther north, and, indeed, the whole African continent. The people of South Africa were more and more beginning to realise that they had a mission of great significance. A new sense of responsibility was springing up, which was certain to have a sobering effect on the rising generation, and which would prove helpful for the future. This feeling was certain to lead to a more mature handling of the great human problerps before them. About the material future of South Africa, he had no doubt whatever.