SOUTH WEST AFRICA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 6

SOUTH WEST AFRICA

Administration as Part of the Union DUE TO NAZI ACTION (By Telegraph—Brew Abbu.—Copyright. l (Received 17, 10.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 10. South Africa proposes to administer South-West Africa as an integral portion of tho Union by taking action under Article VI. of the League of Nations Covenant. The Union's Judicial Commission emphasised thut no limit Mould be placed on such administration as long as the muudutory nation furnished an annual report to the League. The Administration started so hopefully that the Union decided to institute self-government in 1923, when General Smuts concluded un agreement iu London with two representatives of the German Government, whereby the Union legislated for German >u tiunuln, who automatically accepted ’ it'jrulisutiou. In January, 1924, ‘.o German language was recognise'' us an official one. Germans obtained u majority in the first elected Assembly’, leading to a close compact between English and | Africanders. i Racial animosities duvelopcd, becoming ucute in 1933 on the formation of Nazi organisations and tho Hitler Jugend among school children. The registration of sons of Germans WuO were automatically naturalised for military training in the Fatherland and for labour services indicates the extent of the racial feeling, although the Gorman Consul attempted to explain that this was unwittingly done. The Gormans resigned from the Legislative Assembly and refused to serve on the Administrative Council, resulting in the Assembly petitioning the Union to take South Africa over as the fifth province.