NON-NAZI GROUPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23302, 22 March 1939, Page 18

NON-NAZI GROUPS

GERMANS IN AFRICA RECENT DEVELOPMENT [from our own correspondent] JOHANNESBURG, March l Events are moving fast in SouthWest Africa in the direction of dividing the naturalised Germans into two distinct groups —those who look toward Germany for political inspiration and those who accept their British citizenship and the Lnion nationality as a beacon to guide their political activities. The Deutscher Bund, which claims to represent all the naturalised Germans. just now laces the reality that its claim is not justified. Another partv, also comprising naturalised Germans, has taken the field. This new party, called the Deutsche Afrikamsche Part'ei, is openly opposing the Deutscher Bund. The new party contends that the Deutscher Bund is subservient to Nazi interests and that its policy has only resulted in strife and bitterness between Germans and South Africans in the territory. The new party is out to end this and hopes to be able to co-operate extensively with the South Africans m tlie political, economic and social field. It remains to be seen whether sufficiently large numbers of naturalised German's will come out into the open to support it. Observers of political events in the territory in the past six years are not optimistic.