BECHUANALAND’S FUTURE
DR. MALAN ISSUES STATEMENT “SURPRISE” AT REFERENCE TO RHODESIA (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, December 22. The Prime Minister of South Africa (Dr. D. F. Malan), in a statement last night, expressed surprise at a recent announcement that British and Southern Rhodesian Ministers had agreed that in any change in the status of Bpchuanaland Protectorate, Southern Rhodesia’s views about the territory would be taken fully into consideration.
Mr. Malan said the statement appeared to indicate that Southern Rhodesia was claiming co-partnership in the future disposal of*the protectorate and in the possible annexation of part of it. If so, he would like to say, “in all politeness,’* that under the 1909 agreement between Britain and South Africa, the disposal of the Protectorates (Bechuanaland, Swaziland, and Basutoland) was a matter exclusively and solely between Britain and South Africa.
“In the circumstances, it must be regarded as surprising that such a statement should have been issued without any prior consultation with or even notice to the Union Government,” Dr. Malan added. t
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 7
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