ONE VOICE.
\ AN EMPIRE IDEAL. ' FREEDOM FOR DOMINIONS. -By Telegraph.*-Press Received June 25, 5.5 p.m, Capetown, June 23. In the Assembly, General Smuts (the Premier of 'South Africa), replying to a question regarding the new position of the Dominions in the matter of foreign relations, said the Empire could only exist on a basis of complete equality and freedom for all the Dominions. If possible, he said, the Empire should speak with one voice, but South Africa was not going to be coerced by a majority vote of the rest of the Empire. He hoped a constitutional conference would be called next year to go th6rougWy into and clear up the position. General. Smuts said he Was sure the other Dominions would take up the same position, which should be taken not only by the Dominions, but by tho British Government—that no resolution could be binding on any part of the Empire without its free consent. He was sure that some solution could be found in the majority of cases. The final decision so far as the South African Union was concerned rested, and always would rest, with one country and one body only, namely, the South African Parliament Government.—Reuter Seri vice.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1920, Page 5
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