GERMANY’S EYE ON AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 8

GERMANY’S EYE ON AFRICA

WILL SOON GET THE TRANSVAAL STRONG ANTI-JEW AND PRO-NAZI ELEMENTS RADIO TALKS TO DUTCH [Pbb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. “The general idea is that Germany will get Tanganyika,” said • Mr J. J. Ormandy, formerly of Christchurch, who is visiting New Zealand after four years in South Africa, in an interview to-day, “We feel that when Germany does that it will not be long before she will/ get the Transvaal, and after that the Gold Reef.” German radio stations were regularly speaking to the natives in South Africa in Afrikaans, said Mr Ormandy. There were also strong anti-Jew and pro-Nazi elements in South Africa itself, but the better-educated white people realised that the Jews were the economic backbone of the country. “ Johannesburg is more or less owned by Jews financially,” be said. “ All the , big stores are owned by Jews. It Is no good going to town on a Jewish holiday, because there is nowhere to go and nothing to do.” The Jews lived very expensively and contributed greatly to the prosperity of the country. At present they were subscribing enormous sums to help distressed Jews in Europe. 'Mr Ormandy had left Johannesburg before the recent anti-Jewish disturbances became serious, and he knew little of the propaganda methods of the anti-Jew faction. Anti-Jew pamphlets were being distributed, he said. The idea was to impart Nazi ideas to the Dutch poor whites.