SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENCE.
GENEEAL HERTZOG'S DEFINITION (By tJatile—Frees Copyright.) (Australian and N./i. Cable Association.) (Received November 30tli, 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, November 29. General Hortzog, replying to a correspondent's queries regarding tho meaning of tho new article in tho Constitution of the Nationalist Party aiming at sovereign independence, says: "It does not neccssarilv imply Republican independence. Tliat is a question which will bo dccidcd in accordance with the sovereign will of the people. Nothing in the articlo is inconsistent with sovereign freedom within the Empire, but it is undesirable to speak of Empire—wo should speak, rather, of a League of States. The to nil of Empire implies an unalterable relation, limiting the-freedom of tho people. "The articlo also leaves freo any momber of the Nationalist Party to ndoot a watchinc; attitude, whether for a fnturo republic or future voluntary membership of tho Empire, should tho people prefer it."
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16694, 1 December 1919, Page 7
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