LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT.
THE DEPORTATIONS. REFERENCE IN THE COMMONS. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, April 2. Mr F. W. Goldstone, Labour member for Sunderland, in the House of Commons, moved that the rights of Britishers under Magna Charta and the Habeas Corpus Act, recognised under English common law, should be common to the whole Empire. The motion was directed at the South African deportations. Mr Harcourt said he was unable to accept it. He emphasised the difficulty of dictating laws to self-governing Dominions. Mr Goldstone watered down the resolution to an expression of opinion that the House desired to see the freedom conferred by the Acts mentioned throughout the Empire. Lord Hugh Cecil thought Mr Harcourt might have remonstrated with the South African Government, pointing out -that they were transgressing all principles of liberty. The motion, as amended, was passed.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 49, 3 April 1914, Page 7
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