The Archive · 1938

Pan-African Parleys For Capetown

"Daily Herald" Learns Of Suggestion for 1940

London, Oct. 29.

The prediction that a Pan-African Conference will be held in Capetown in 1940 is made by the "Daily Herald" on the strength of a report received from its Capetown correspondent, This report says that it will be in the nature of a world conference to which all nations having colonial Claims will be invited. It is timed to coincide with the centenary of the setting up of the first European Eovernment in Capetown and it is hoped {o have the presence of King George VI.

The South African Minister of Defence, Mr. Oswald Pirow, will take advantage of his present visit to London to discuss with the British Government all details for the of a conference of this kind—Trans-

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