HERTZOG DISAPPOINTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 5

HERTZOG DISAPPOINTED

NATIVE PROTECTORATES DELAY IN TRANSFER LONDON, July 6. General J, B. Hertzog, the Prime Minister of South Africa, in an interview in Capetown reproached the British Government for withholding the transfer of the native protectorates of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland to the Union of Africa. He alleged that Britain was playing with the question. He said he had received a written assurance two years ago that the transfer might be possible in a few years. "I now learn that it will be a long time before the transfer is possible,” said General Hertzog. “The Union does not want recourse to the South African Act to request the King, by decision in Parliament, to accede to the transfer. The consequences of such a step are so incalculable that I am not accepting the latest British reply as final.” The Morning Post’s diplomatic correspondent emphasises that the British Government’s position briefly is that there can be no transfer until the natives have been fully consulted and an adequate discussion has occurred in Britain and Parliament.