RACIAL PROBLEMS
MEETING IN JOHANNESBURG CAPETOWN, May 21. A crowded lunch-hour meeting at Johannesburg expressed its determination to use every lawful means to ensure that South Africans would remain and be known as British subjects. The Dean of Johannesburg, the Right Rev. W. A. Palma, issued a warning that racial peace could be assured only by determination of the races to honour each other’s loyalities. He said he would welcome a designation describing South African citizenship, but he would resist to the uttermost any “tinkering” with the designation “British subject.” The Mayor of Capetown refused to call a similar meeting, as he considered it was likely to inflame public opinion,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 8
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