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GENERAL SMUTS' VIEWS FREEDOM THE ISSUE British "Wireless "PUGBY, Oct. 17 The deputy Prime Minister of South Africa, General Smuts, who* is visiting England, was installed as Rector of St. Andrews University to-day. In the course of his address he said he did not agree with the view that the world was on the verge of another great war. The issue around which the greater battle of this and the coming generation would be fought, if the cause of civilisation was to be saved, was the issue of freedom. General Smuts added: "la the events of the times I see much ground for anxiety, but none for real pessimism. Human nature is not so one-sided or ill-balanced that we need look upon our civilisation as doomed. " In spite of scaremongers and the present lamentable failure of disarmament, in spite of the vogue of silly drilling and strutting about'in uniforms and shirts of various colours, I do not find a real war temper anywhere."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 11
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166NEXT GREAT WAR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 11
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