Dr. D.F. Malan, Nationalist leader, has learned from Chancellor Hitler of Germany that “if you want to attract people, give them something to hate; the Jews are handy and helpless,” according to Mrs. S.G. Millin, biographer of Gen. Jan Smuts.
Writing in the Johannesburg Star, Mrs. Millin condemns anti-Semitism in South Africa and declares that “insidious, purposeful German propaganda” coupled with the Government’s unnecessary fears of Jewish immigration make Jewish citizens feel they have not an equal standing with other Europeans in South Africa.
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