Tactful Amery
A DELICATE POSITION INCIDENT AT BANQUET j By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright \ Reed. 9.50 a.m. CAPETOWN, Friday. Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, who has been careful in keeping clear of controversial topics during his tour of South Africa, was placed in a delicate position at ?. civic banquet at Durban, where the feelings of intense loyalty to the British Empire have been accentuated by Flag Bill bitterness. The Mayor, proposing the toast, protested warmly against the Union Government robbing him as a Britisher of the right to retain his own nationality. Murmurs of dissent arose, but Mr. Amery handled an awkward situation tactfully, emphasising that there was little new in the recent Imperial Conference decision, but that the basis of the British view of Empire was equal status of the Dominions, and for this purpose he included Britain as a Dominion of Herself. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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