HER PARAMOUNT NEED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 9

HER PARAMOUNT NEED

NATIONAL UNITY; AMERY'S PARTING WORD (United Press Association.— Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) CAPETOWN, 22nd September. Mr. Aniery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, addressing a farewell banquet, said that South Africa's paramount needs were faith in her own destiny, unity within herself, a more effective economic policy, a sound immigration system, and an improvement of the standard of life of the natives, which tfas essential to the maintenance of the standard of

white civilisation; He picMR. LEOPOLD AMBRY*™ 6? «*». Kg* ' destiny before South Africa. If 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. He eloquently stressed the Anglo-Dutch co-operation in the 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 he recognised the great difficulty in departing from any course of policy once it was embarked npdn, but there were occasions of grdat national difficulty when the path of statesmanship might be 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."