Pretoria, Nov. 12.
"It is fatal for Afrikanders to follow a policy based on the expectation that Germany and Italy will win the war while there is no lie deserts of those who a victory' will be ad-to the Africander. cause, nor is there any guarantee in such .|a case liberty. fend interests of Afrikanders than in the M. Jansen's intervention. which tribution towards clarifying the present political position in the Union, following the resignation of General J.BM. Hertzog,' leader of the Opposition in the Union òf South Africa, from the leadership of the Re-United Nationalist Republican Party, especially as M. Jansen has always been a supporter of General Hertzog.
"M. Jansen considers that a Republican form of government best is for South Africa only if obtained peaceably and if established on sound basis, for which it would require the cooperation of a large section of the English-speaking population and the support of all Afrikanders.
He concluded: "No political policy which does not pay due attention to actualities as they exist and to the composition of our European population, can ever succeed in putting any party ini power in a consti manner Reuter. i; o. Pama
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