SOUTH AFRICA
NEW PARTY'S CAMPAIGN DANGERS OF THE SECESSION , MOVEMENT B7 Telegraph-Press ABSociation-OopyTleM J Oape Town, December 5. General Smuts opened the aowj South Afncan _ Party s campaign in Pretoria. Alter giving reasons for recommending tho dissolution of Parliament, ho said 111s appeal for the formation of a new party had met. with a great response from the moderates of all parties who desired to escape from tho present d'angerous impasse and secure racial peaco and the internal development of the oountry. There was much racial unrest, wild and dangerous talk about breaking iihe British Empire, nven among the ranks of the Nationalists; and La* iir!! r iT as ,V6al 'y of barren party , cries. What was happening to-day was not a mere party matter, but a national event ot. the first importance. He reviewed the question of Imperial connection, and declared that the secession movemnnt like a flash of lighting, had made the Modcrates suddenly .realise tho dangere ahead threatening tho ipeaco and unity of South Africa. He-commended tho League of Nations and tho British Empire unitymovements, and declared that iil was nonsense to call the latter movement Imperialism—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 7
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