PLEA FOR UNITY
GENERAL SMUTS ELOQUENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). OTTAWA, January 3. Speaking here, on Thursday night, General Jan Smuts said: The liberty of nationhood had been achieved by the Dominion of the British Empire, but a pother task remains which must be undertaken. The task is 1.0 give form and substance to the unity of that great group which is the British commonwealth of nations. ’I his great structure should become the most enduring of ,all time. A\ hatever storms may blow, as they have blown in the past, whatever vicissitudes are before us, this ship should weather the storm. This great commonwealth of ours should remain for all time an example of tin 1 embodiment of human liberty and political genius, an instrument of happiness not only to us, but to the others nations of the world.” General 'Smuts told his audience that the Dominion status has proved the solution of those Empire problems which seemed insoluble.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1930, Page 5
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