SALVATION ARMY
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES CURTAILMENT OF GENERAL’S POWERS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 3. General Higgins, of the Salvation Army, after his return from South Africa, announces that forty-two commissioners from throughout the world will meet on November 10 to discuss important constitutional changes, principally the curtailment of the general’s personal powers and a general move from autocracy to constitutional government.
General Higgins pledges that a proper trustee company, instead of the general, shall hold tho Army’s British property, capital, and assets. An electoral body shall choose the future general, and the age of retirement of the present general shall be fixed.
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Evening Star, Issue 20633, 5 November 1930, Page 9
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103SALVATION ARMY Evening Star, Issue 20633, 5 November 1930, Page 9
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