AMERY'S TACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 9

AMERY'S TACT.

SAVES SITUATION. Fedin* Durban Over The Flag. VOICED AT A BANQUET. (By c*Me.—Fiw Association. —Copyright.) (B«ceived 11 a-m.) CAPETOWN, September 2.

J£r. L. S. Amery, the Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies, w ho is on a tour of the overseas Dominions, has been careful in keepjug clear of controversial topics during Ks tour of South Africa, but he ■gta placed in a delicate position at a eiviß banquet at Durban. feeling* of intense loyalty to the British Empire have been accentuated the bitterness tftit has arisen over the Hag Bill, and the banquet the jiajar in proposing the toast protested warmly the Union Goternment robbing hint as a British dtises of his right to naintan his own nationality. |fnruiurs of disseat arose when tte Ifayor said this, but Mr. Asieiy tactfully handled an awkward situation, emthe fact that there was little omt in the recent decision of the ImConference, but that the basis of British view of the Empire was the eqnal statu of the Dominions, and for tint purpose he included Britain as a p—wman herself.