South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow is “the Henlein of South Africa” to German statesmen, it was declared in L’Oeuvre today by Genevieve Tasouis, well-known foreign affairs commentator. Mme. Tabouis, who reports that London deeply regrets Pirow’s trip to Berlin but finds it unassailable under the Statute of Westminister, predicted that the Nazi leaders would ask Pirow for “complete liberty for the Nazi agitation which they would consider as the first phase of recovery of German Southwest Africa.”
“The Nazis believe they have found in Pirow the Henlein of South Africa,” she added. “German newspapers stress that Pirow is of German descent. They write ‘Pirow early showed an understanding of the young Nazi Germany and from 1933 onward found the road which would lead him to Hitler.'”
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