GENERAL HERTZOG

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1930, Page 5

GENERAL HERTZOG

BANQUETTE!) IN DUBLIN

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, ] (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2.

General Hertzog on his first visit io Ireland war; the guest at an official ‘banquet at Dublin. Air Gin-grave said 'lreland and South Africa stood out evem to death, against attempts to break their national ~independence. Both bad emerged from the fire of war with their spirit tin, broken and national consciousness unimpaired. Happily the old 'enmities and hatreds bail faded in the light of a. clearer understanding and bad become free associates in the Commonwealth of Nation,s_ unique in the world’s history. Mr Hertzog said be regarded the freledoiin and 'independence ais absolutely real in every respect. If it were not he would not consent to remain in the association for a single day. The declaration of 1926 is a declaration of the full, free independent status of members of the commonwealth. It is upon that assumption alone I have called on my countrymen to work in the future for the co-operation of the meinliers thereof. General Herthog concluded—There is one thing to which South Africa responded. That is, we are and ever shall be in every respect a free independent country, whose obligations rest upon no other basis but the basis of a free voluntary agreement, Up ‘to 1926 we viewed everything pre* fixed with Imperial as sinister, but from 1926 the angel of peace lias triumphed ,