NATIONALITY AND THE OATH
Th.c contention that the oath of allegiance to his Majesty the King could be taken only by a British subject was rejected by Mr, Justice Schreiner in the Supreme Court, Pretoria, South Africa, when, with the Judge-President, Mr. Justice Greenberg, concurring, he said that a Stateless alien could take the oath. The Court thereupon allowed Mr. George Lowen, of Johannesburg, to take the oath and be admitted as an advocate of the Supreme Court. The judgment went fully into the whole question of the oath of allegiance and its implications. Mr. Lowen, a German advocate, born in Germany, arrived in South Africa in 1935, where he had since remained. He stated that he intended to reside permanently in the Union, to swear allegiance to his Majesty King George VI, his heirs and successors, and proposed to become naturalised as a Union national an/3 as a British subject as soon as legally possible.
The ordination and induction service of the Rev. B. C. Dowling, minister designate of the Seatoun Presbyterian Church, will take place tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 17
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182NATIONALITY AND THE OATH Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 17
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