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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINETEEN Man He Fired Ousted Smuts In Elections * Capetown (OP). --Wentzel Christ- offel Du Plessis, before whom Prime Minister Christiaan Smuts met per- sonal defeat in the recent South African general election, declared that circumstances and not a de- sire for revenge brought him to Standerton constituency as the field marshal's opponent. : Du Plessis was dismissed as chief of the Union's diplomatic division early in 1945 after the Smuts gov- ernment forbade public servants to hold membership in the Afrikaner Broederbond, on the grounds the organization was a secret society undermining the country's war ef- fort. Du Plessis' dismissal followed his refusal to give up his Broeder- bond membership. The 78-year-old Smuts, elder statesman of the British Common- wealth, lost the constituency he had represented for a quarter century in the election May 25 which saw Smuts' United Party government defeated by the Nationalist party of Daniel Francois Malan. "When the government banned the Broederbond to public servants, we regarded it as most unfair that membership in other secret organi- zations like the Freemasons and .8ons of England was not banned too," Du Plessis said in an inter- view here recently. "The Broederbond had nothing whatever to do with the war. The question of war was never discussed and the Broederbond concerned itself with internal South African matters, mainly cultural." Keep British Ties Asked about his attitude towards South Africa's ties with Britain, | Du Plessis replied that it would be | "stupid" to break away. "We want to keep our friends," he said, and added: "we want to make more friends." Du Plessis, now 42, said he would not .try to reopen the question of | his dismissal, but he hoped the blot | on his name would be removed. | Himself a Nationalist, he would not | speculate on what the Malan gov- | ernment might do in the matter. He was interested in politics and | in furthering Nationalist policy, | with which he agrees, | Du Plessis was born in Pretoria, | a descendant of Jean Brieur Du @ RADIOS and Electrical Appliance Repairs @ Household Wiring and Electrical Fixtures ® ALL PARTS AND WORK- MANSHIP GUARANTEED FOR 90 DAYS Warner Williams 78 Simcoe N. Phone 7367 Plessis who came to South Africa with the Huguenots in 1688, He entered public service in 1925, and by 1938 had risen to head his coun- try's diplomatic division. One of his first jobs was assistant private secretary to Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog. In 1930 he was secret- ary to the South African delegation Hertzog led to the Imperial Confer- ence in London, and in 1934 he was appointed legation secretary at The Hague, Holland. After his dismissal from government service, Du Plessis joined a colliery company of which he later became managing director. Today he is chairman of four com- panies, one of them -a shipping firm, Beaverbrook Says He Runs Papers To Expound Views London, June 12--(AP) -- Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born press magnate, told a royal investigating commission he runs his newspapers purely as propaganda organs for his empire views, it was disclosed Fri- day. The publisher's testimony, given March 18, was published by His Majesty's stationery office. He is at present in Canada. : Lord Beaverbrook, who owns the mass-circulation Daily Express and Evening Standard, told the commis- sion he ran the Express "purely for the purpose of making propaganda |. and with no other object." "Propaganda" was on "particular issues, my own issues, issues I have advocated all these years." He listed these as Empire free trade, Empire customs union, "Em- pire unity for the purpose of secur- | ing peace, and if necessary for mak- | ing war." The publisher said his papers opposed British participation 'in the Marshall Plan, adding "it be- gan with opposition to the Ameri- can lean in 1945 and so we go on building up; it is all part of our Empire conception." Commenting on the investiga- PRESCRIPTIONS Quickly and Accurately Filled pe BL wn MITCHELL'S DRUG STORE 9 Simcoe N. Phone 48 $10 REWARD . FOR ANY WATCH THAT WE CAN- NOT REPAIR AND GUARANTEE FOR 6 MONTHS OSHAWA CLOCK SHOP 504 SIMCOE ST. S. - PHONE 49093 (Opposite South Simcoe School) tion, the publisher said: "The press seems to me to emerge with extraordinary credit. 'If that is so I would leave the press as it is, since they are doing a good job. I would let them continue to do 50." 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