SOUTH AFRICA
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Cape Town, September 6. The Nationalist Congress after much travail substituted the acceptance of the Imperial Conference declaration for the secessionist clause in the constitution. Country delegates failed to reconcile recognition of the King with independence and argued thpt the conditions of the declaration were a negation of independence and could not obliterate the words “within the Empire.” The Minister of Mines who is an advocate of the measure supplied sugar coating to the pill, stating: We are what is higher than a republic. We have sovereign independence giving an inherent right to determine our form of Government. He asked, “did the English deny they were independent because the King was also the King of Australian and Canada?”—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20585, 8 September 1928, Page 7
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