SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Patea Mail, 3 December 1937, Page 4

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

NO RETURN TO GERMANY MINISTER EMPHATIC A. .definite reply to Dr, Malan’s sug. gestion that South-West Africa should be returned to Germany, was given by Colonel Dcneys Reitz, Minister of Ag. riculture in South Africa, when he ad. dressed a meeting in Pietcrsburg. 1 ‘ No one has any business to make suCjh suggestions about South. West Africa,” said Colonel Reitz. “South. West Africa is ours. It belongs to the Union of South Africa and it will remain in our possession. It is best that there should be no misapprenhen. sion about that. South-West Africa is just as much a portion of the Union as this Pieters, burg district is a portion. It tyelong. cd to us originall3 r and will now continue to do so. ” Colonel Reitz said- that in the old days it was a common procedure to throw colonies about among big Powers but that state of affairs had come to an end. Ho far as Soutji Africa was con. corned, the people 'of South Africa would definitely want to have say in any distribution of colonics since it was they who pioneered South Af. rica and had made it fit for habitation by the white man.