SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS
NATTONALLST CAMPAIGN OPENED. THE SECESSION ISSUE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPETOWN, April 2A The Nationalists have opened their election campaign. Mr Hcrtzog and Dr Malan, leader of the Cape Nationists, spoke at Vryheil and Capetown respectively. The Republican and Secession issues figured prominently i-: both speeches. Mr Hertzog declared that the Republican bogey bad been killed. It was never on the Nationalists’ programme. He assured his hearers that sovereign independence had been secured, and had been admitted by General Smuts. They should use that independence, and act independently of the Privy Council, perhaps in the election of Governor-General. Dr Malan declared that the Nationalists stood for sovereign independence, which did not necessarily imply secession from the Grown. So did the Canadian Government and Genera! Smuts If it did imply secession from the Government and State of Great Britain constitutionally—however dose relations might otherwise re-main-then the Nationalist Parly \vas seseionisls, but so also wad' Ocneml Smut® himself, unless he was deliberately deceiving South Africa,—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19156, 26 April 1924, Page 10
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