AFRICA'S NATIVE PROBLEMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 4 November 1930, Page 11

AFRICA'S NATIVE PROBLEMS.

MORE CO-OPERATION WANTED. GENERAL HERTZOG'S ' VIEWS. (SIU'iUSK OFFICIAL WIRELESS."! RUGBY, November 2. General B. M. Hertzog (Prime Minister of South Africa), speaking at the Imperial .Conference delegates' dinner, urged more co-operation between the British and South African Governments in dealing with native problems in Africa. He recalled that recently he supported a South African colleague who expressed the view that the British Government, when dealing with matters of native policy in Africa, should not, without consulting the Government of tho Union, introduce any new principle or change of policy which might affect the position of South Africa. He disclaimed any intention of interfering in matters concerning Great Britain, adding: "We do not ask that we shall be allowed to assist you in governing East Africa. That is your business. But what we do think we are entitled-to is, as one of your partners in the Commonwealth, that you and ourselves should work hand in hand, consulting one another as to how to proceed in discussions respecting these problems, so that our policies may be mutually helpful." The policy in the native interest in Eastern Africa was almost certain eventually to have a very disturbing effect in South Africa. A policy that native interests were paramount, and the equal rights doctrine, were alike impossible of implication where the white man had established a home in Africa for himself and those who followed him. Nothing could so alienate the white man's affection and goodwill towards the native as the anxiety caused by the thought of domination by native rule. VISIT TO IRELAND. AFRICAN PRIME MINISTER ENTERTAINED. (CWITXD ' PBE99 ASSOCIATION —B! *LBCTEIC , •LTSMSGKAPB— COPYEIOBT.) LONDON, November 2.

General Hertzog, on his visit to Ireland, was the guest of honour at an official banquet in Dublin. President Cosgrave said that Ireland and South Africa had stood out, even to death, against attempts to break their national independence. Both had emerged from the fire of war with their spirit unbroken and their national consciousness unimpaired. Happily, the old enmities and hatreds had faded in the light of clearer understanding. They had become free associates in the Commonwealth of Nations, which was unique in the world's history. General Hertzog said that he regarded their freedom and independence as absolutely real in every respect. If they were not he would not consent to remain in association with the Commonwealth for a single day. "The declaration of 1926 is a declaration of the full, free, and independent status of the members of the Commonwealth. It is upon that assumption alone that I have called on my countrymen to work in the future for the co-operation of the members thereof.''