SOUTH AFRICA
Sir, —I admired your editorial concerning Mr Strydom, but comment on three .points. I would say that an English-speaking- South African’s loyalty is primarily to South Africa and then to the Crown. The electoral quirk which placed the Nationalists in power was similar to that which placed Labour in power in Britain: i.e., although a paradox, constitutional. General Smuts referred to the Indian Republic as a constitutional fiction. This Commonwealth status has been accepted. Obviously Mr Strydom attempts the same dual advantages—a long-sought and foughtfor republic, without loss of Commonwealth political and economic advantages. Although an Anglophile, bilingual, English - speaking South African, I would vote for a republic in the hope that it might remove Afrikaans-English tension and allow both races to apply themselves to the mutual and vital native problem The only hope for South Africa is that decent Afrikaners will restrain the present unscrupulous government.— Yours, etc., T. MICHAEL LE MESURIER. June 20. 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27690, 21 June 1955, Page 7
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