GROUND FOR ANXIETY
■ BUT NONE FOR PESSIMISM GENERAL SMUTS'S VIEWS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October IT. General Smuts, who to-day was installed as rector of St. Andrew’s University, in the course of his address, stated that he ,did not agree with the view that the world was on the verge of another great w r ar. The issue around which the greatest battle of this and the coming generation would be fought, if the cause of civilisation was to be, saved, was the issue of freedom. He added: “In 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 on 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 uniform and shirts of various colours, I do not find a real war temper anywhere.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 9
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160GROUND FOR ANXIETY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 9
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