NO SECESSION

Evening Star, Issue 18667, 23 June 1924, Page 6

NO SECESSION

hr Honzors assbbshel PACT HATOBITT, TWEHTY-HIAK. Preua Assodalioa—By Tei«jraph—Ospyriylit. CAPiTtOWN, Jane 20. The Pact has a majority of twentyni.no. Many members of the Labor rank and file are opposed to the Laborites joining a Hertzog Cabinet as being oontraiy to tho party’s cardinal principles. A Labor conference will be held on June 29 to decide the matter. Mr Hertzog, in an interview, was l reticent as to whether ho intended to take 1 or into the Cabinet, but he frankly admitted that ho would bo unable to carry on without Labor support. Ho claimed that the result of the election was undoubtedly a verdict for the Pact, and attributed its success to the people being desirous of a '•haugo of Government, The Pact had now ended, hut the country expected the Labor and Nationalist Parties to continue to co-operate. Asked if he were prepared to repeat his assurance that the Nationalists would stand by their pledge to make no effort to change (lie constitutional relations with Britain as provided for in the Act of Union, Mr Hertzog declared that the Nationalists without exception were prepared to stand by their pledge, and added: “ I say positively tliat the Nationalists do not look upon secession as a matter of practical politics, and they arc not likely to do so till tho bulk of the people—especially the mass of British feeling—is in its favor. Tho question has never been a Nationalist Party question at all. It has been raised by General Smuts deliberately to frighten the Englishspeaking community. It was, due in no small measure to the fact that the people refused any longer to be frightened by the bogey that the followers of the Labor Party and others bad so heartily supported the Nationalists. I hope that the secession bogey has now definitely been laid aside, and with it the cry of racialism. Tho Pact has scotched it —A. and N.Z, Cable. THREE-PARTY COMPLICATION. ELECTORAL REVISION URGED. CAPE TOWN, June 23. (Received June 23, at 10.25 a»mj The final figures show a remarkable disparity between the votes and the actual representation. The South African Party, with a minority of twenty-nine, polled half the total votes. The Press urges tliat this make;! a strong case for electoral revision. —Reuter, ME HERTZOG’S TEAM. CAPE TOWN, June 22. (Received June 23, at 10.30 a.in.) It is understood that General Smuts will resit'll on Monday. Mr Hertzog’s Cabinet will number eleven. A new portfolio of Labor will be created if Labor consents to enter the Cabinet. —Renter. THE STA.NDERTON SEAT. CAPE TOWN, Juno 22. (Received Jane 23, at 10.30 a.m.) The Standerten election is fixed for July 16. The Nationalists have not yet announced their candidate to oppose General Smuts iliere. Mr Roos, chairman of the Transvaal Nationalists, has invited the Dutch members of the South African Party to join the Nationalists on the ground that tie former are now nothing but the old Unionist Party.—Reuter.