SECESSION FROM BRITAIN.
CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
VIEWS OF A MINISTER. ADVOCACY DEFENDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m.) Renter. CAPETOWN. Aug. 24. The Minister of Mines and Industries, Colonel Beyers,. was asked by a correspondent recently how, in view of his oath as a Minister of the Crown, he could advocate secession from Britain ? Colonel Beyers has replied stating that the right to secede had been admitted for the past 80 or 90 years by prominent British Ministers and others. It therefore followed that for the very reason that a person was a British subject he was entitled under the Constitution of any Dominion, to make propaganda for putting absolute equality with the United Kingdom into practice, and even to advocate secession. ■ The oath of allegiance could not derogate from Constitutional rights, and was, therefore, not inconsistent with the exercise of those rights. ' There could; never bo any question of absolute severance from the British Com-, monwealth, or Community of Nations, until the two great white-races—English and Dutch—substantially agreed upon stepping out of the commonwealth or community.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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178SECESSION FROM BRITAIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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