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...again, in again. That was the political gymnastic performed last week by gruff, choleric General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, His Majesty's Prime Minister in The Union of South Africa...
...entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...
Since South Africander Hertzog is of Dutch descent and rather relishes baiting Englishmen, there is some reason to suppose that he deliberately upset the intended emphasis on Edward of Wales. The Prime Minister's excuse is, clearly, that his indiscreet interview was given in the heat of a verbal battle, at Pretoria, with the nationalist politicians of those parts who bluntly demand secession from Britain and proclamation of a Republic...
...rebuking this trend, Mr. Hertzog let slip an indication of his wish respecting the Duke of Gloucester, and then went on to flay Pretorian republicans, especially parsons who preach republicanism from their pulpits...
Meanwhile Prime Minister Hertzog continued his labors in Pretoria, scouting the idea that a "republic" could have greater practical freedom than have all British "dominions." To prove his point he read the famed definition of "dominion status," which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain has declared "destined to become historic" (TIME...