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LAND & WATER 
May 25, 19 16 
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a very high feeling of affection for the Turk as a clean 
fighting man. You see he can be a gentleman in other 
ways also." 
THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
M 
R. SCHREINER carries his aU but three 
score years amazingly. I hope it is not out 
of order to note that he is a singularly 
handsome man and that one of our real 
painters should 
find it worth 
his while to 
make a study of 
the clear, sun- 
warmed skin, 
the blue of ex- 
ceechngly keen 
wise eyes and 
the warm grey 
of the beard. 
He speaks with 
a finish and a 
fastidious choice 
of phrase which 
1 do not attempt to reproduce. 
I found, if I may be frank, his extreme official discretion 
(while I could not but admire it) a little disconcerting. He 
knew all my gambits and no doubt some scores of others. 
My battalions of highly inteihgent questions were withered 
by what I ma\- call his curtain fire. On nothing approach- 
ing a controversial qucstion--and " are not most ques- 
tions from certain aspects controversial ? " — would he 
allow any comment to pass his lips. 
Trade arrangements, zollvereins, ah, those were indeed 
very delicate questions to discuss in detail at any time, 
particularly during the war.- As General Botha had 
said, let us get on with the war and win it. Arrange 
after^vards. That seemed to him (for the purpose of this 
interview) extremely sound. 
The general feeUng of the Dutch in South Africa ? 
Well, who could answer for the general feeling of any 
body of men ? The broad facts open to all the world 
stood for themselves. Clearly Botha's commandos in 
South-West .\frica had their fair share of Dutchmen. 
As to the troops going over to England, of course there 
were less of Dutch than British blood. Sentiment 
counted a good deal. And then farmers (you have an 
analogous case in French Canada), were always less 
alive to questions outside their immediate ken than 
townsfolk. And it was worth noting that South 
Africa had had one of its worst periods of drought, and 
the men after serving in thousands in South-Wcst 
Africa, simply had to return to the farms to save the 
country's agriculture from sheer ryin. 
And what of tlie futvuo ? Well, he could say that the 
change tiiat had taken place in the fourteen years since 
the war was all but unbelievable. To hive "heard and 
seen the bitterness of some of the defeated in those early 
days was to dread that a future of reconciliation might 
be impossible. Yet the impossible had been substantially 
achieved. The tolerance and wisdom of the British 
Government, the sanity and faith of the men who 
promised allegiance at Verceniging, education, in which 
great strides were being made, intermarriage, which was 
becoming more and more common, were doing this all- 
important work. 
****** 
Yes, the war would in South Africa as elsewhere, 
strengthen the feeling of unity. 
****** 
Only there were difficulties and dangers and no easy 
solutions. " There never are easy solutions." Nor could 
comprehensive statements be made. 
****** 
The rebellion was a tragedy, but it had a happy ending. 
***** 
Yes, there -vill always be nationalist aspiration every- 
where. But in South Africa it could be reconciled with 
keeping complete faith with the fellowship of the Empire. 
Indeed no other serviceable plan gives better hope for 
South African nationalism. 
***** 
He would like to say that the War Office had been 
extremely considerate towards South African applicants 
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