SOUTH AFRICAN FREEDOM.
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. RECOGNISED BY IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day. 8.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Dee. 21. Speaking at Pretoria, Mr Hertzog em phasised that the Imperial Conference had deliberately rejected the idea of an Empire group. The declaration differed from all previous statements on the status of the Dominions by the publicity deliberately giver to it. There was*now nothing to prevent hearty cooperation and the promotion of common interests with other states of the Empire. The question had been raised as to whom honour was due for what .had been achieved. He paid a warm rribut- to the great work of Botha and Smuts, who both strove for freedom; but freedom had been achieved because the people had willed it —the English as well as the Dutch. The greatest aim -of the Nationalist Party had been achieved. Some of the other aims"were now superfluous. Mr Hertzog added: “I don’t think because the Union Jack still flies that the people are not free. It is for the people to decide what flag shall fly.” He repeated that they had secured national liberty to the fullest degree because the great nation which guaranteed that, liberty was one of the greatest friends they had to-day and 'would remain so in the future.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 December 1926, Page 5
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