PESHAWAR: That a great political awakening has taken place among the tribesmen of the North-West Frontier drawing them close to their Muslim brothers in Pakistan is seen in this unusual experience of Dawn`s Spe cial Representative after the Quaid-i-Azam had addressed the grand Tribal Jirga attended by nearly 200 tribal maliks on Saturday last [April 17]. After the Jirga broke up, an old bearded malik in tattered clothes buttonholed Dawn`s Representative and said: ...

`Please reassure our brother Muslims of Pakistan that they have nothing to fear from us. They can leave us to guard the NorthWest Frontier. Pakistan is as much our country as theirs and we will guard it as we guard our own freedom... .

[Meanwhile, as reported from Cape Town,] Field Marshal Jan Smuts, the South African Premier, told the British Empire Service League Conference here today [April 19]: `Germany is dead, possible for the next 100 years, just as she was dead after the hundred years war. ... Poison has been taken out of that menace to civilization. Communism has not been dealt with yet,` he added. News agencies