DR JAMESON'S RECENT LAMENT

Grey River Argus, 27 September 1909, Page 1

DR JAMESON'S RECENT LAMENT

If the "Daily Mail's' Durban corcospondent is correctly informed, the Dutch leaders are prepared >to adopt the very policy of conciliation and coaii tion which Dr Jameson recently appeared to regard as hopeless. He said that in view of the impossibility of a British-Dutch coalition extinguishing the racial dfferenee, he would return to South' Af ritean politics to assist- ihis party the Progressives. Now, it would seem, . Generals Botha "and Smut? are prepared not only to, accept coalition,* but to efface the party organisations: Dr; Jameson's recent at Uuie was conveyed in the following London cablegram, dited September S>^- / ; '.- ... ■ * , ■*: ;; = ' 'Dr Jameson announces that political d€velopm«Eit6 in South Africa wilJ prevent him 'devoting himself to the deyelcipmeinifc of JRhodesia, and he now intends' to seek election to the' Union Parliament.; He iad 1; toped thaitra coalition would hold office, in the eairly 'years* of the union;' as 'a continuance of the present party divisions would inevitably delay -the total" disappearance of the rajcial: problem, which "had.been -the curse of South Africa. T3[ut as r coalition had been found impossible.he would return to South Afriba in' November to assist his^pirty.": • '}