“PEACE THROUGH VICTORY"
ISSUE IN SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS London, June 29. General Smuts, Prime Minister, is fighting the South African general election on 7th July on the plain issue, “Peace through victory,” says “The Times” Johannesburg correspondent. In what is General Smuts’s last election and perhaps his most important campaign, the attitude of the bulk of the Union’s one and a-quarter million voters to the war will be definitely defined. The election is notable for the obvious reluctance of the Nationalist Opposition to make a bid for power. Dr. Malan, Opposition Leader, chooses to play a lone hand because he could not hope to oust General Smuts, and even if victorious with the help of the lesser groups, would be committed to the impossible task of withdrawing South Africans from the war. Dr. Malan by fighting alone has made cer* tain of losing the election, but he hopes while losing the main fight it will eliminate other Opposition groups.— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 30 June 1943, Page 5
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