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CHANGES BY WAR OPINIONS OF GENERAL SMUTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. and JN'.Z. Cabio Assn. and lieuter. (Received, Jim© o, i.-J p.m.) LONDON, June 2. ' 'General Smuts (Prime Minister of the South African Union), interviewed by ithe ''Daily Chronicle" correspon-dfC-nt, declared that apart from Uie grave situation m Central and Eastern Europe and the apparent, impotence of the League ol nations, iintish statesmen aliould give auciitioi: to the constitutional position of thu liritish. jvmpire. licosraplneaily the United Kingdom was an adjunct or" Europe, but politically it was the centre of a. world-wide Empire. ' 'i iit United 'Kingdom seemingly did aiui give attention to the funuameni.al constitutional' change* brought about by the war ih the uritish-Comnionweakn. Xiio old pre-war Jiritish Mnpirc was gone in tlio tens© timt, it connecte'.' colonies or subordinate-nations cluKtcring round one master nation. Lmortunat©ly the old ■' machinery still remained.
M© disputed Mr Bonar Law's contention that Dominion Home Rule was tantamount to "a separatist republic, asserting: "We are an organic union forming one. whole with tue King as a connecting, link. Dissolution vvouid ze revolutionary. There must be complete equality and freedom enjoyed uy the sister States united by the lving. Only on that foundaitiou will the British Commonwealth last."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 7
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206THE NEW EMPIRE New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 7
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