ABUSES BY GERMANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1942, Page 5

ABUSES BY GERMANS

UNION NATIONALITY IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

(Rec. 9.30 a.m.)

CAPE TOWN, February 24^

The Minister of the Interior, IVfx. Lawrence, has introduced a Bill depriving Germans in south-west Africa of their Union nationality, which th ey automatically acquired under legislfeition passed in 1924 and 1928.

He explained that the measure iw.ps necessary because many naturalist^ Germans had abused Union naiionsility by promoting Germany's interests against South Africa's.

fled that it is the best that can be devised to meet, the extraordinary .difljiculties and dangers through which we are passing. There will be absolutely no question of making any changes ifn it of serious or fundamental character so long as I retain the confident 6 of the House and the country.

"However, tempting it might bei in days to come, when much treublC) lies ahead, to step aside lightly an,d' put someone else to take the blows* heavy and repeated blows, which aye coming, I do not intend to adopt thanfc cowardly course, but, on the cojwtrary, to stand at my post and piirl--sevcre in accordance with my dui'y as I see it."— B.O.W.