Fidelity To South Africa Should Be Sole Principle
Malan on Republicanism
, United P.A. —By Telegraph—Copyright) ) Australian and N.Z. Press Association)
R< ?cd. !0 am CAPETOWN, Wed. Dr. X). F. Malan, Minister of the Interior, who unflinchingly fathered the Uag controversy last year, pressed the •Nationalist Congress to-day to accept iln alteration in the party’s constitution, to supersede what is known as too Republican article. lie said. “We can work with Enga nd as long as we want to, not as J® England demands. N« door is closed, ■herefore. As a right, we can have se-
cession and a Republic day. Whether that is practical politics is another question. Whether we become a Republic depends on whether it is m the interests of South Africa. R it is not it would be criminal to become the’ Republic of South Africa. “Our principle is not Republicanism, but fidelity to the interests of South Africa. The present mistrust is due to fear but wc need not fear a friendship with England, or with other members of the Commonwealth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 9
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