AFRICAN ELECTION
LEAD GIVEN BY GENERAL SMUTS “PEACE THROUGH VICTORY.” OPPOSITION AWKWARDLY PLACED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 29. General Smuts is lighting the South African general election on July 7 on the plain-issue of “Peace through victory,” says the Johannesburg correspondent of “The Times.” In what is General Smuts’s last election, and perhaps his most important campaign, the attitude of the bulk of the Unions 1,125,000 voters to the war will be defined.
The election is notable for the obvious reluctance of the Nationalist Opposition to make a bid for power. Dr. Malan, Leader of the Opposition, chooses to play a lone hand because he could not hope to oust General Smuts, and, even if victorious with the help of lesser groups, would be committed to the impossible task of withdrawing South Africans from the war. Dr. Malan, by fighting alone, has made certain of losing the election, but hopes while losing the main fight that he will eliminate the other Opposition groups.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1943, Page 2
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164AFRICAN ELECTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1943, Page 2
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