SOUTH AFRICA
Sir,-In reference to your leader on the result of the recent South African elections, you are doubtless unaware of the very definite anti-British feeling there, that exists and grows with the years. The injustices of the Boer war
have never been forgotten and no display of Royal magnificence and charm will wipe out the memories of concentration camps and burnt homesteads. General Smuts was regarded by many as a traitor to his own people when he went over to the British at the close of that lamentable campaign. In recent years he has so often been away from his own land giving advice to other nations that consequently a strong feeling of grievance at his neglect of South African problems has been engendered. I have recently returned from the Union, and when there noticed a decided trend in public feeling against Britainwhat was in my childhood a small cloud
in the distance is now a storm near at hand. New Zealand has no problems comparable with those of South Africa and is unable to assess the difficulties that arise from mixed races and past wrongs.
AFRIKANER
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 5
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189SOUTH AFRICA New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 5
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