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They have it all but the jackboot

Cape Town, June 23., MAN in a crumpled dinner jacket' leaned against a wall and growled Afrikaans curses on the English idiots who had beaten him up in

a cloakroom.

Last week in Eloff-street, Johannes- burg, a taxi-driver said to me: "If you are a Jew, man, get to blazes out of this cnb." In Andrles-strect, Protorin, the traitor Robey Leibbrandt, freed from gnol by the new Government, saluted the applause of his admirers.

In the all-day bars and lounges of the city Innumerable whisky- sodas translated the stuntion into

stocks and bonds, rises and falls, shures and stratagems.

That was the way Fascism peer- cd.round the corner in Afrien.

by JAMES CAMERON

is not the whole picture of White This Is Nationalist South Afrien. It South Africa, in the strict meaning

in

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South Africa is as Interested survival as anyone. The gold is there allll, the land is there under Malan as under Smuts. Yet anyone who is not fanatically obsessed or Politically admple-witted can that this country is on the brink of a course of conduct which

cannot fall to worsen relations with every liberal country, which is almost cer- tab to bring a dangerous rupture with India, » fellow Dominion, how- ever much South Africa would like to deny it.

How did all this come about? How did the Unlled Parly let The country slip from them? Principally beenuse they were a poor and in competent Government.

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Traitors freed

BUT

UT when the new Nationalist Afrien Government of South

released ceremoniously

the five Nuzls convicted by the country of treason, it revealed finally that WOR not compromising with "moleration." It was issuing

the

of challenge direct to every form liberal opinion.

it

Dominion polities are traditional- Ir a bore. The Issues involved are usually tedious and remote. Never- theless, right now you have here t country that is turning harder and than more ruthlessly to reaction anywhere else in the world, one country that has officially written racinlism and intolerance into the statute a policy of political despair If ever there was one.

And bear in mind that the Innt where all this goes on is a leading member of the British Common- wealth of Nations.

Remember that for the first time you have a Dominion Government without one wholly English-speak- Ing member. Conskler that many of the ruling party are members nt the Farcist Droederbond and nitted to the Orewabrandwag, anti-Bri- tish, anti-Semitic, anti-African groups committed precisely to the principles of life as laid down in so many words by the late Adolf Hit- ler.

Recull that oficial Government native policy now proposes to turn

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already rigid und restrictive Jegislation into a vicious and un- paralleled tyranny.

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In Johannesburg last week must meeting condemned the release of the Afrikander Nazis.

His lieutenant.

Mr Jan Hofmeyr, a man of remark- able tersonal unsonularity, was held on all sides to be a flaming revolu- tionary when all he

fact suggested was that perhaps, some- where, black men might have some -very limited-rights.

TWO

half million and

while their remen, ridden by

national neurosis over 8,000,000 dark, vete- less neighbours, united in de- nouncing this mildly liberal surges- tion as intolerable heresy.

In Durban 5.000 demand the sination of the Makan Government, But Durban is in Natal, and Natal is traditionally "British." Pretoria, the capital, is not.

Pretoria has Just announced that the wartime ban on civil servants Joining the Ossewabrandwag is re- moved. From today State cin- ployees are entitled to become Fascists.

Smuts, defente, erled: "We fight on!"and promptly flew off to do.. liver some more highminded &C neralities in Europe.

Racial hatred

EASTE

TINGLISH-SPEAKING,

Cape

out

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* Might I ask, sir, have you a specific reason for using

your cur?

I CHOSE THE COCKTAIL ONE!

By BRUCE BLUNT

England alone. There is Fred from Zurich, Jack from Dublin, Tony from

the Lisbon, Rudolph from George V. in Paris, and Alfred from Lausanne. From London we have Eddie, Joe, Billy, Marcel, and several others.

Such bartenders nre always known, and well known, by their Christina

which make names,

it nice and friendly from the stort.

I was going to say. There seems to be a sentence missing here. It was only a hole in the rond.

NO BOMB

On a French road. THIS is the cocktail couch. It is n very well for shrewd

And how it shakes! It is students of the market to SDY

whizzing through France that business will always win, that

Towners. who Arc anxiously at 60 miles an hour, and I am with a single-figure majority Malan will attempt no serious changes, that and rather abjeelly rushing to swot beginning to feel like a strange

are mixture.. the Roer loves his jackpot as much up their Afrikans grammars,

the Boer-balting will as pathetic as as the British, and that trade temper everything. That the native emigrants. (For racial hatred is not

The coach is full of cocktail question has to be solved somehow all one-sided: Britain has sent

barmen, and it serves them that Apartheid and

(complete Rome deplorable jingoes.)

right. The shakers are being WWE ate at Rbeims. I want to ask segregation) may be the way.

In the Rand poldfelds the grim shaken up at last. Members WEddie about a cocktail, but his nuamuly of Compound Labour of the. United continues, understood by

Kingdom mind is above such things. He is Africans but by no one else. The Bartenders' Guild (Did young loughs of the Nasionale know that one before?) THE moral question cati be innored Juctbond parade Pretoria chanting travelling guests of the there would only be an atom cock-

and in South Africa-general-eir "Uns Bring Hulde!" ly is. The economie one never is. Bring Homage!" as their spiritual French bartenders, and I have fail. There would never be an atom

15 been asked to go with them. The bly interests-nowhere big- uncles did, to different words, Ber, pownere inore interested-are years ago in Munich. renuinely seaed

aggressive domestic Nationalism may interfere with prosperity that is tied up with international good will. They

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are concerned at the decline South Afrien's gold reserves--down by £12,000,000 since April, and

2,000,00 now only six percent

the statutory limit.

over

The inilux uf Brilishi "funk" money has not improved that situation. Most of it is lying idle in banks which legally must cover with gold. Mr Invengo, Finance Minister, may yet jump on that.

Demobilisation

Y the end of this year all of Britain's members wartime fighting services

By Dr.

But al

South

We

AS

you

selling the world to rights. “I inter- national affairs," says Eddie, "wers are controlled by the Bartenders' Guild,

I cannot think why. Perhaps it is In the pubs and oflees the Anan- because I know nothing about enek- cial ostriches say: "Let it wait, it'll tails. It is going to be an educa- pass." In the squalld shabbiness of tional trip for the and, possibly, for Alexander Native Township outside you. At the moment the pace is Jehannesburg the Jim Crow popul- too fast for learning. tion lives and waits for the hospital that may not be built yet because the European

selchbours say would spoil the view.

A few minutes ago we were in itaris. We shall soon be in Rheims. We are going to stop there for All-up. As Rheims is the heart of Robey Leibbrandt, the traitor, Is the champagne country, we are not back with his chums in Potchef going to ill up with petrol, stroom. It may be he thinks his time will come again.

Maybe, if this goes on, it will.

almost

George

Gretton

In the meantime, meet some of the from Kuests. They do not come

completed

a

The

and Cambridge live presented strange spectacle: a high proportion of the undergraduates have been married men, and prams have be- will have been released except if he did not find something to com- with little or no experience of come a common sight under the

the millions civilian work.

of the colleges. for regular sailors, soldiers plain about.

Krey walls Who have passed through the pro- These people found the 1,200 educational Krants have always and airmen and others on "excess of release at the "demol ven- local offices of the Ministry of been sufficient for a man to support tended engagements,”

tres" have nothing but the highest Labour ready with help and advice his family while he continues his In making this announcement re praise for those who administer the about suiltable and available jobs studies. cently Mr George Isaacs, Britain's centres with such speed and and with a scheme for giving atx Minister

National efficiency. of Labour and Service might well have noted that

inen and women have been

without any hitch.

woman leaving the

be

bomb."

As far as I am concerned. Eddle can be dictator tomorrow. Or nt ance if someone would pass him the shaker.

Bartenders would make gond statesmen. For ond thing, they have to be men of experience. It tukes 10-12 years to make a real know, perhaps, bartender. They 200 different cocktails by heart. would come In useful for This diplomatic partics.

But

they have to know other things by heart. They have to know their customers by heart, all sorts of hangovers by heart, and a smattering of most subjects in the world. They have to give advice when it is wanted, to withhold advice when t is not wonted, and to exercise every imaginable kind of lact,

We are now hundreds of miles from Rheims in every sense. Wo have charged through Rouen, Paris, Orleans, and Poltiers to Cognac.

ON

THEY KNOW HOW

N,the journey these French bar- tenders have done us well. They

know how to entertain guests. For our delights many eggs have been broken, mountains of bulter have been raised, a lamb has been roasted Inevitably

have

been whole months' free training in buy of n

there

on the banks of the Loire, cases and, ns to often variety of trades to those who need problem

hundreds of Lottles of champagne ed it. For those with special happens in Beltain. voluntary effort huve been opened, casks of wine authorities have been emptied, and bottles of Services qualifications and abilities, appoint and that of the State

December 31 next will mark the As is well known, ench man completion of Britain's No. 1 post- war plan by which some 5,500,000 receives 11 complete outht of ment offices have been working in have gone hand in hand... Almost all brandy have been showered on us an

trous elvillan clothes. The value of London and 13 other large British regiments and corps have their asso-kitts ferred from the country's war these outfits

judged cities. Interviewers are picked for ciations, as to all branches of the potential to her peacetime production by the high prices which at one time sympathelle Insight, and many of Navy and Air Force. One of their

Before the brandy carries us sky- is to care for used to be offered for them by touts them

the wards in Cognac, i have managed themselves ex-Service- chief objects are

welfare of their former comrades-in to bring Eddie down to earth. It is just over three years since hanging around the demob centres. men, the age and service release selemy Besides a east gratulty, the ex-

It arms.

Is unspectacular and * * * lenst #k

Contact Is into

tistally unpaid work. operation with much Service man or woman gets was put

"Eddie," I say, "please think of a publicity. Since then many other two months leave on fill pay and

kept with members of the associa Many men "ot on" in the tions who have jobs to offer, and cocktail for my envious and absent plans and problems have attracted dependants' allowances, which Ive Services. The apprentice became a when a man cannot lind work to suit readers. Something which they can public attention, int "demob" tas him or her a breathing space In release from the Services has been which to look around in "clvvy sergeant technician, the clerk a field him they try to fit him in or have make at home with Ingredients any- popularly called)-the first essential streel." In any postwar

economy-bas

gone on quietly and steadily.

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*

the

Cx-

one can buy."

officer used to commanding

men discussions with Ministry of Labour Peacetime Britain, wanted these men officials on his behalf.

So here is Edie's up-to-date Gin "Demab centres" are only thu

Naturally. Information about this Sour beginning of the story. The people and needed to make full use of their abilities and experience. Yet often of Britain during the war foresaw th

type not

of welfare work is rarely their qualifications were

1 measure (1-6 gilt) of gin; for services viously

ob available to the public, but records that the best reward

suited to y particular of all these associations show that The keynote of the whole system sailor and airman would be to give offices, therefore,

rendered by the returning solter, civili

civilian

The

appointment in the last three years the spirit and

11⁄2 measures of lemon cordial; has been planning. Those respon them secure Jobs.

worked ou!

sacrifice Throughout the selentine procedure

of wartime comradeship for measuring has been kept alive and many

I teaspoonful of household milk. sible were determined to avoid the last three years machinery has been mistakes of 1918 by which tens of functioning to ensure that they ret

men's natural aptitude for Servicemen helped.

Shake very well. Add a slice of thousands of men were given a cash this reward.

different Jobs and careers and It is no more than common justice lemon or orange. If preferred you gratulty, thrown on the Inbour

recommending them to employers on that those who fought for their

can substitute whisky or rum for gin. market and left to fend for them Employers were obliged to fake

country during the war should be selves. Instead, the needs of the back their old employees. Naturally An important feature of the post- lepked after during the peace. But Whatever you use, you will have a Services, industry and individuals, many of the ex-Servicemen had jobs war resettlement has been the by planning "demob," Britain is now creamy and delicious drink. Having were all carefully co-ordinated. waiting for them. But a large pro- educational grants, given for training reaping the benefit of having | got a drink for you, Eddio and I are of course there have been portion of the 5,500,000 men and at universitles, colleges and technical hundreds of thousands of willing and now going to have one for the long, grumbles. There would be some- women had not. They had boen schools. For the last three years rendy recruits for her great postwar long road before us, We shall have thing wrong with the British soldier called up for war in their late teens the ancient universities of Oxford production drive.

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