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Nazi Paper's Bitter Criticism Of General Smuts. __________ • LEAGUE BROADCAST. (Received 2 p.m.) BERLIN, January 4. In a broadcast from Geneva, General Smuts said that the League of Nations simply carried into world affairs the outlook of liberal and democratic society, which was one of the great achievements of human advance. Perhaps that was the real reason why new dictators objected to it.
The "Boersen Zeitung" sharply criticises General Smuts' broadcast. "It is presumptuous of liiiii to 'maintain that the dead in the Great- War -laid down tlieir lives for the ideal of the League of Nations," the paper says.
"We must protect the memory of German dead who rest in foreign soil from this presumption, especially when we recall that General Smuts, when he attacked German colonies in. the Great War was actuated less by ideals of the League of Nations than by sheer covetousness as experiences. have shown in the House of Cpmmons and the. French Chamber of Deputies.
"There do not exist more fanatical or more irresponsible agitators for war than enthusiasts of the League of Nations."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 7
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