AFRICAN NATIONAL AIM

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 26 January 1933, Page 5

AFRICAN NATIONAL AIM

REPLY TO GENERAL SMUTS. AMENDMENT PROPOSED. (By Telegrnpn—Press Association.'! CAPE TOWN, Jan. 24. iGeneral J. C. Smuts, in placing ihis motion before the Assembly calling on the Government to resign in order to make way for the formation of a national Government, spoke brilliantly without recrimination. He based his claim on a national desire for racial peace and the fact that General 'Hertzog was now carrying out a non-gold policy despite his express pledges that he would not remain in office if the Union quitted the gold standard. General Smuts declared his willingness to place the initiative for the formation of a national Government in General Hertzog’.s hands. The financial and economic conditions of the Union were so serious that they required a great national effort to retrieve them. The present Government was fully capable of dealing with all emergencies, 'General Hertzog said in reply. His pledge to resign referred only to a voluntary abandonment of gold. His Government must now defend the country against the disastrous consequences of non-gold which General Smuts and his co-adjutors had forced on the country. General Hertzog moved an amendment declaring the House had the fullest confidence in the present Government. The debate will probably take a definite party turn when the House resumes to-morrow.