SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISTS
THROW OUT SECESSIONIST CLAUSE FOR EMPIRE CONFERENCE DECLARATION (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. September 7, 5.5 p.m.) Cape Town, September 6. The Nationalist Congress, after much travail, substituted acceptances of the Imperial Conference's declaration for the secessionist clause in the Constitution. The country delegates failed to reconcile the recognition of the King with independence, and argued that the conditions of the declaration were a negation of independence, and could not 'obliterate the words “within the Empire.” Tlie Minister of Mines, who is an advocate of the measure, supplied a sugar coating to the pill by stating: “We are what is higher than a Republic. We have sovereign independence, .giving the inherent right to determine our form of Government.” He asked: “Did the English deny that they were independent because tlie King was also King .of Australia and Canada?”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 291, 8 September 1928, Page 9
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