CONTROL BY UNION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 209, 17 June 1936, Page 5

CONTROL BY UNION

EX—GERMAN S.W.x AFRICA. RACIAL AN‘IMOSITIES RIFE. ACTIVITIES BY THE GERMANS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 16. South Africa proposes to administer South-\Vest Africa as an. integral portion of the union by taking action under Article VI. of the League Covenant. The Union’s Judicial Commission, in its report, empliasisetl that no limit would be placed on such administration as long as the mandatory: nation furnished an annual report to the League of Nations.

The administration started so hopefully that the Union decided to institute self-government in 1923, when General Smuts concluded an agreement in London with two representatives of the German Government, whereby the Union legislated for German nationals, who automatically accepted naturalisation. In January, 1994 J the German language was recognised as an official one. Germans obtained a majority in the first elected Assembly, leading to a close compact between English and Africanders. Racial animosities developed. becoming acute in 1933, on the formation of Nai organisations and the Hitler legend among the school children. Registration of the sons of the Germans who were automatically na~ turalised, for military training in the fatherland and labour services, indicates the extent of racial feelings, although the German Conscul attempted to explain that this was unwittingly done. The Germans resigned from the Legislative Assembly and refused to serve on the Administrative Council, resulting in the Assembly petitioning the Union to take South-West Africa over as the fifth province.

NAZI INTRIGUE. THE LAW. COURTS IGNORED. LONDON, June 15. The Johannesburg correspondent of the: “Morning Post” says that recruitr ing for the German army in SouthWest Africa continues, despite upublic protests. Germans have been instructed not to use the Government law courts, but to submit disputes to a special Nazi arbitration tribunal. If the contestants refuse to accept the decision, the papers are sent to Germany for final judgment.

:A fiood of films, pamphlets and other propaganda is being widely distributed