The Archive · 1937

Blue Book's Inaccuracy The "German Diplomatic-Political

Correspondence" which is closely connected with the German Foreign Ministry, turns against the statements made by Sir Henry Page Croft in "The Times" on the alleged German misrule in the colonies, especially in South-West Africa, which are based on a Blue Book of the Union of South-Africa entitled "Report on the natives of South-West Africa and their treatment by Germany."

The "Correspondence" points out that the National Council of South "West Africa as far back as July 29, 1926, unanimously voted for an annulment of the Blue Book and that the South African Prime Minister, Gen. J. M. B. Hertzog, declared on January 28, 1927, that the unreliability and indignity of that document was sufficient to condemn it to the most dishonorable funeral of all similar writings in times of war

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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