BIG VICTORY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20503, 20 May 1938, Page 7

BIG VICTORY

THE GOVERNMENT PARTY THE SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS COMMON-SENSE AND LOYALTY United Prc - Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received May 20. 11 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 19 The state of the parties as a result of the general election is:— United Party . . . . 86 Nationalist Party . . 6 Dominion Party . . ~ 7 Labour Party . . . . 3 Socialist Party . . . . i The following Ministers were returned: General Smuts, Minister of

Justice; General Kemp, Minister of Lands; and Mr D. D. Reitz, Minister of Agriculture.

General Smuts secured 73 per cent of the votes in his electorate.

The results of the election are aocepted as a definite victory for the unity of the two races and the policy of the United Party.

Those defeated include Colonel Stallard and Mr C. W. Coulter, the Dominion Party’s leader and deputyleader. The Dominion Party won two Durban seats from the Government, which is attributable to the Englishspeaking province's reaction to the introduction of* the Africaans National Anthem, and also fear that the Government would abolish the term British subject. The Cape Times, in an editorial, says; •* The results show that '.he United Party triumphed by sheer commonsense and loyalty to its great leaders. If the rural vote goes similarly we may well believe the last has been heard of the Dominion Party's heresy, and the severest check has been given the Nationalists’ dangerous and detestable racialism.”