SOUTH-WEST AFRICA'S STATUS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23857, 11 July 1939, Page 10

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA'S STATUS

Following upon recent pro-Nazi activities among the German population, there has been a renewed demand for the formal incorporation of South-West Africa as a fifth province of the Union of South Africa, notes a Capetown correspondent of the Spectator. Radio stations nightly pour into South-West Africa patriotic propaganda, which is not likely to make the German there any the more reconciled with his lot; and the argument is that the position will steadily degenerate unless doubt is removed once and for all by finally determining the constitutional future of the territory. Quoted from end to end of the territory is a statement alleged to have been made by the departing Consul-general: "Our Fuhrer has not forgotten you, and will rescue you." Words by General Hertzog and General Smuts, it is said, are not enough to stop this sort of thing, and give the territory the sense of security without which initiative and enterprise are being stifled. Deeds are wanted, and the deed chiefly desired is the early incorporation of the mandated territory as an integral and constitutional part of the Union of South Africa.