SOUTH AFRICAN PARTIES.
trERTZOGS KXtI^ANATION.
Elec. Tfil. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cab^e Association). . CAPETOWN, November 29, Mr Hertzog, replying to a. correspondents queries regarding the meaning of the new article m the coiifititution/o& the Nationalist party a : ming at sovereign* independence, says : "It does not necesT? sarily inipTy Republican independence. That 1 is a question which is to be decided m accordance with the sovereign wDl'of the people. Nothing m th« article is inconsistent with the sovereign freedom. 1 " within tb© Empire, but it is hot desirJable to speak of the 'Empire, but rather! of* the League of States. An Empjre irhpKes unalterably relations, limiting the 1 : freedom of the people. The article atsq leaves fre© any member of t the Nation-^ ali«?t party to adopt a '° : <n:atc^ii^ v<^^i^dW whether for a future • RipujiK©;, tfr [ fytfUjee 'VoMtttary membership of theAlimpire; should tlie people prefeV it. .' v> / -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 3
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149SOUTH AFRICAN PARTIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 3
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