OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
AND TALK OF SECESSION
CAN THEY BE RECONCILED?
SOUTH AFKICAN MINISTER SAYS JEB.
'(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Reuters Tolepram.)
CAPETOWN, 24th August.
The Minister of Mines and Industries, the Hon. F. W. Beyers, replying to a question by a correspondent who asked how, in viow of his oath as a Minister of the Crown, Mr. Beyers could advocate secession, declared that tho right of secession had been admitted for the past eighty or ninety years by prominent British Ministers and others. It therefore followed that for every reason a person who was a British subject was entitled under the Constitution of any Dominion to make propaganda for putting absolute equality with tho United Kingdom into practico, and even advocating secession. The oath of allegiance could not derogate from Constitutional rights, and was therefore not inconsistent with the exercise of such rights. Mr. Beyers ed that there could never bo any question of absolute severance from the British Commonwealth or tho community of nations until the two great white races, the English and Dutch, substantially agreed upon stepping, out of the Commonwealth or the community.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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187OATH OF ALLEGIANCE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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