GENERAL SMUTS'S APPEAL TO AMERICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 271, 18 November 1919, Page 5

GENERAL SMUTS'S APPEAL TO AMERICA.

(Renter's Telesrams.) ''(Received^Nov.: 18, 9.15 a.m:) JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 17. General Smuts, in a striking api peal to 'America to- ratify the CWenant : pi 'the, League of Nations, said-thati1 ho wasr told thait the League was in danger in : the American Senate. He could \ not believe it. Might he send a message from South to Aniericd.? He trusted that the appeal woii'ld not be resented. America ' had e&tablished a . gi'eat T^cor'd in the ■-■war', and had' shown capable arid '-high altruism. He couid 'not'believe, that America would now, -after all,' block' tho way, or that the ■purely American point, of view would be allowed rx> oveivrido the wider interests arid necessities, of civilisartion:in die greatest crisis, in history. "They all: prayed her to sign the : great Covenant and complete the work.for ' huroa.nit(y which she un:»sEislily set out in the •nay to do.