SOUTH AFRICA'S NEEDS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 15

SOUTH AFRICA'S NEEDS.

MR AMERY'S ADVICE

SPEECH AT FAREWELL BANQUET (BI CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION*—COPYRIGHT.) (Sydney "Su.v" Service.) " (Received September 23rd, 7.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, September '22. Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, addressing a farewell banquet, said that the South Africans' paramount needs were iaith in their own destiny, unity within herself, a more effective economic policy, a sound immigration system, and improvement of the standard of the life o ft-he natives, which was essential to the maintenance of the standard of white civilisation.

He pictured a high destiny before South Africa. .It national -unity were achieved, she could look forward to leadership beyond her own border, and even from Limpopo to the Nile, and make valuable contributions to the common stock of statesmanship, science, art, and beauty of the Empire. Ho eloquently stressed Anglo-Dutch co-operation in fho past, which had been a more important contribution to history than their conflicts.

Though not referring directly to the flag question, Mr Amery said that lie recognised' the great difficulty in departing from any course of policy once it was embarked upon, but there were occasions of great national difficulty when the path of statesmanship may he to rise above the ruts of party policy. He pointed out the necessity for obliterating internal divisions, and said with a deeply impressive gesture, "You should, you can, you must."