“ALL BROTHERS.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 October 1924, Page 11

“ALL BROTHERS.”

MR, HERTZOG ON THE EMPIRE. SPEECH TO PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATES. IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY MR, THOMAS. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 16. 11.30 a.m. CAPETOWN, Oct. 15. Proposing the toast of the guests at the Government banquet in honour of the delegates to the Parliamentary Association at Pretoria, at which the Governor-General was present, Mr. Hertzog welcomed them as “our brothers,” declaring: “We are all brothers of the commonwealth.” The Nationalists believed in brotherhood and, co-operation of the Dominions along lines making the world less an arena for gladiators. South Africa would always lay great store hv the close co-operation existing between the Dominions, so long as it'was felt that we were each free individual nations, whose freedom would be recognised and would alwavs be in the hands of individual peoples. It was a point of national honour with young nations that, having reached manhood, they looked to see that, manhood acknowledged and recognised. If that were kept a little more 1 In view, some of tb'o'r difficulties would not be so great. —Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 15. Mr. Thomas. replying to assertions that the Government’s actions were tending to the disintegration of the Empire, pleaded that the Empire .would ■not he mode hv olnyiiur at oavt.v nolit.ics. The Colonial Offi co should 1-e tree of part-v bias and similarly foreign policy. —Reuter.