SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION
THE SECESSIONIST DEBACLE LONDON, February 13. The Capetown correspondent of The Times, in a striking tribute to General Smuts, says that his marvellous energy, brilliance, and devotion in personally conducting the election campaign were mainly responsible for its success. Never in the history of South African politics has the personality of a single individual counted for so much. Two other important factors which c-ontrihnts-d to the Secessionist debacle were, firstly', the desire of the English-speaking community to meet the Dutch-speaking people in a great joint, effort to obliterate racialism, and, secondly, the conviction of the same elements of the utter fatuity of Republicanism and a realisation by the Dutch of the economic, defensive, ; I financial advantages of pariner.ship in the commonwealth (APEIOWN. February 14. The last, election return gives General Smuts a majority of 22 over all possible combinations, even if he loses two ties, which, however, he expects to win,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3494, 22 February 1921, Page 41
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