STATUS BILL
SECOND READING PASSED.
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CAPETOWN, April 13. The Status Bill passed the second reading, with much enthusiasm. There were seven dissentients. General Smuts, in a remarkable speech, declared: “Whatever can be said, in human language, to maintain the British connection is said in the Bill. The British Constitution rests on commonsense, wisdom, experience, and human nature. When crises arise, we rely on commonsense, prudence, and statesmanship, which have guided use in the past.” IMPERIAL UNITY, LONDON, April 13. The “Morning Post” announces tlie formation of a new organisation, known as the “British movement.” Its object is “the securing of a patriotic political revival, combating Socialism, defeatism, and apathy.” A national appeal to join is pending, wherein among the objects stressed are closer Imperial relations. “The promoters,” says the “Post,”
“hold that our future lies in the Empire, and yet the British peoples are drifting apart. It is for Britain to give a lead and unite them in a common purpose."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1934, Page 7
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