NATIVE PROTECTORATES
Transfer-Wanted to Union of South Africa (Itecei ved 8, 8.43 aua.) CAPETOWN, July 7. The youth Afrioan Pi'ime Minister, General J. B. Hei'tzog, in an interview. reproached the British Government for withholding the transfer of the nativp proteetorates of Basutolaud, BeehuatiaItind atul Swaziland to tho Union of youth Africa. llo alteged tiiat Britain was playing with tho question. He aaid be had a Vmtton assuranco twc |
years ago that the transfer might be possible in a few yeafs. *'I now learn," he said, ''that it will be a long time before the transfer is possible." The Union does not want to make recourse to the South Africau Act to request the King by decision ir Parliament to accede to the transfer The consequenceB of such a step are so incalculable that I am not aceepting the latest British reply as final.'' A London message sayB that the Morning Post's diplomatic correspondnet emphasiaes that the British posi, tion briefly is that there can be nc transfer until the natives have been fully consulted and adequate discussion has occurred in the British Parliament. i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 7
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