TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN
BY GENERAL SMUTS. RESPECT INCREASED BY EXPERIENCE. (United Press Association—By Cable—Copyright.) (Received 8, 8.35 a.m.) Capetown, Dec. 7. General Smuts, who was warmly welcomed on his return, is seriously concerned about the economic future. He said that Ottawa would present an opportunity to extend South Africa’s markets, but that it would be difficult to get markets as long as she remained on the gold standard and as long as the German treaty exists. He had always respected the solid qualities of the British people. That respect was bom of long experience of working with them and of fighting with them to the last ditch, and that respect was heightened by recent experience in the economic crisis. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the centre of our Commonwealth. The national heart was sound and the national pulse was beating well. The pound, never worth twenty shillings since the war, had been bound to fall, but the general election had showed that the people were dedetermined to stop the country from drifting and that the breakers in sight demanded thorough reform.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 8 December 1931, Page 7
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