Balance Of Power In South Africa Held By Germans

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 September 1950, Page 5

Balance Of Power In South Africa Held By Germans

Elections In South-West Defeat General Smuts’ Party LONDON, Sept. 1 (Reed, li p.m.)—The “Daily Herald’s” and the “Daily Mail’s” Pretoria correspondents say 3000 Germans, many of them former Nazis who were interned during the war. have voted Or. Malan’s Nationalist Government into complete

power. . By plumping solidly lor Na-1 tionalist candidates, they enabled Dr. Malan’s party Io make a clean sweep of ycsteiMay’.s cleetions for south-west Africa’s first seats in South AfrieaM Parliament. ; All six Nationalist candidates were | returned, giving Dr. Malan a clear majority without the aid of I ho Africaner parly in both the Assembly and the Senate of the Union Parlia- ; ment. Genera! Smuts’ United Party has < been wiped out in local Government < elections which were held at the j same time, the Nationalists winning ; all but two of the eighteen seats in I |South-West Africa's Legislative As- > 'sembly. t

I “It was a vengeance vole,” said Dr. Frank Marais, chairman of the 'South-West African United Party. He added: “In the next general election in South Africa Germans will have their own candidates, and as progressively more Gormans get the vote it looks as though Germans are going to control South Africa s Parliament for the next 50 years, may be longer." The Capetown newspaper “Cape Argus" roinonts: “Dr. Malan has deliberately allowed Ihe balance of power Io be taken from South Africans. whether Afrikaans or Englishspeaking. and grasped by the Germans. We wish (he Nationalists the joy of their new fellow-travellers, but we grieve for South Africa, I whose political structure and position have been gravely weakened