Anti-Semitism is rising in South Africa, especially in the smaller towns, and it is not confined to Nationalist circles, says Professor E.A. Walker of Cambridge in “South Africa,” one of the pamphlets on World Affairs issued by the Oxford University Press. He adds that the wide powers taken by the Government to control immigration are “avowedly aimed at Jews in the first instance.
“It must be stated frankly,” the Professor says, “that anti-Semitism is rising in, South Africa, especially in the smaller towns, and that , though it is most outspoken in Nationalist circles, it is not confined to them. The wide powers which the Government has taken since 1930 to control immigration are avowedly aimed at Jews in the first instance while year or two ago the Malanites, made further restrictive legislation one of the main planks of their election platform with considerable success.
“Latterly more than one anti-Semitic ‘shirt’ movement has arisen owing a good deal to German encouragement and example,” Professor Walker concludes.
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