SOUTH AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 9

SOUTH AFRICA.

HER HIGH DESTINY.

Mr. Amery Sounds The Note Of National Unity. "YOU CAN, YOU MUST." (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, September 23. The British Secretary of the Dominions, Mr. L. S. Amery, who is making a tour of the Dominions, was farewelled at a banquet here. In a speech Mr. Amery said the paramount needs of South Africa were faith in her own destiny, unity within herself, a more effective economic policy, a sound immigration system, and an improvement in the standard of life among the natives, which was essential to the maintenance of the standard of the civilisation of Europeans. Mr. Amery pictured the high destiny before South Africa if national unity were achieved. She might look forward to leadership beyond her own border and even from the Limpopo to the Nile, and make valuable contributions to the statesmanship, science, art and beauty of the Empire. He eloquently emphasised the co-operation between the English and the Dutch in the past, which was a more important contribution to history than their conflicts. Although not referring directly to the flag question, Mr. Amery said he recognised the great difficulty in departing from any course of policy once ■ I it was embarked upon, but there were ; occasions of great national difficulty I when the path of statesmanship might be raised above the ruts of party policy. j Mr. Amery pointed out the necessity 1 for obliterating internal divisions, adding, 1 with a deeply impressive gesture: "You 2 should, you can, and you must." , (Sydney "Sun.") r