* * The South African Election South Africa has got
the National Government of Mr. Tielman Ro6s's desires, and Mr. Tielman Roos, rather unexpectedly, has lost the seat he was standing for at Rustenburg in the Transvaal. He apparently intends now to retire from a political scene into which he has injected considerable liveliness since he left his seat on the Supreme Court bench to harry General Hertzog into abandoning the gold standard last December. With the new Government holding about 140 seats out of 150, Parliament will have nothing more strenuous before it than the registration of the Cabinet's decisions, and it may be expected to go into long recess. One material advantage is that General Smuts will be free to come to London for the Economic Conference. Other uses may conceivably be found for his abilities before he returns.
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