CO-OPERATION OF RACES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 9

CO-OPERATION OF RACES

SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE OPINIONS OF SIR ABE BAILEY [from our OWN correspondent] LONDON, Nov. 1 Speaking ori "the co-operation of the two white races in South Africa," Sir Abe Bailey, who was the chief guest at the Royal Empire Society luncheon yesterday, said a truly National Govern- • merit in South Africa, without a separatist and racial sentiment, was absolutely necessary to prevent the future of South Africa, being one long sterile struggle and its final disappearance as a white man's land. There was very.gjittlo cheerfulness for the English in South Africa to draw upon. Some of the political leaders were fond of making political capital out of hatred of the Englis.lt, and they were surrounded by many who hated them for ulterior motives. They were raking up the past and forgetting that to look back was to risk tiie fate of Lot's wife. It did not take a strong and clever man to win an election by the cry of 'racialism. The actions and utterances of some of the leaders of the Nationalist Party in South Atrica had given rise to the feeling among the English that, although they had made their homes in South Africa and were South African citizens, and taxable and consuming assets, they were not regarded as such, and that they were not required i in South Africa. "What is the national and territorial outlook for the Union of South Africa ?" asked Sir Abe Bailey. "Is the Limpopo going to be the northern boundary for ever, or are we- to the driving-- factor and centre of a great South African Union, extending from Capetown to Tanganyika '! We can only achieve that with a conception of a nationality embracing both races, with no narrow and sectional outlook. "Personally, I was always in favour of unification and against the provincial system, but in order to embrace the Northern and Southern Rhodesias, the Chartered Company, with its strangle influence on those territories -as the controller of the mining rights and the railways, must disappear." South Africans, he concluded, should not forget that clouds in the Far East, through its awakening, were looming on the horizon, definitely against Western civilisation. They must realise that great movements were impending among the j peoples of Asia, the effect of which none of them could foresee or calculate. They must- not depend upon the League _of Nations, but upon themselves, believing that the spirit and vitality of the races which governed the British Empire would ensure "safety and recovery, and make its history once more great.