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fulfill their natural geo- aphical destiny and be 'adminis-
The Chină Mallared by the new Union. Within the Union, however, the trend of native policy has of late been Union Government meanwhile is almost wholly reactionary. The enger that the intention regarding the protectorates expressed in the Act of 1909 should be soon
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7. Garrick Street, London, WC2 fulfilled, and the question arises what would be the position of the Crown if a South African Minis- over of the territories. It is, no try-were to advise the handing doubt, a hypothetical question, able, therefore, to have the opin- but it is important. It is valu- fon of so eminent a constitutional Keith that such advice could not lawyer as Professor Berriedale be entertained. The Statute of Westminster cuts both ways. The relations of the protectorates are "solely with the Crown in the United Kingdom,” and an "in- evitable corollary" of the doctrine laid down in the Statute of Westminster is the complete exclusion of the Crown in the Union from any intervention in the sphere of operations of the Hong Kong, Monday, October 17, 1998. Crown in the United Kingdom.”
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Or, in simpler words, each must SOUTH AFRICA AND tectorates are an affair of the mind its own affairs, and the pro-
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British Grown Tranter cannot be expedited by advice from a Formation of the West African await the convincing of the pro- South African Ministry. It must League is a plain indication that tectorate other factors besides high policy British Parliament
natives and of the in Westminster will play a vital tive interests will not suffer by that na- part in the decisions taken when the change. Professor Keith's Hitler gets round to claiming the opinion is valuable as a reminder return to Germany of the of the considerable obstacles to colonies. Empire relationships are be overcome before the protec certain to undergo close examina-torates can be absorbed in the tion. And the attitude over the Union.
Protectorates is a demonstration
of South African feeling. The
Statute of Westminster passed in Records and Records 1931 made clear and formal the right of the Dominions to full
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self-government in all matters The last few weeks have seen and the obligation of the Crown dished, representing new achieve records estab- to act in such matters upon the ments in various branches of advice of its Ministers in the human activity. The Queen Mary countries concerned. The statute has made the quickest crossing {did not create new relationship of the Atlantic, Captain Eyston so much as confirm an establish- has travelled faster on land than ed one. But its formal assertion anyone before him, gliders have of complete Dominion autonomy broken national and international was of the first-value in such records for duration of flight, countries as Eire and the Union and the series of test matches of South Africa, where a strong between England and Australia sentiment existed for severing has provided a number of sur- entirely the British connection, passing feats on the cricket field. and they made haste, by legisla- The modern and widespread tion of their own, to incorporate pursuit of records is not invari- in their Constitutions, clauses jably a desirable, or an edifying, formally asserting the full mea-practice; it sometimes degener- sure of freedom to which the ates into a pointless display of statute entitles them. Such de- endurance, as in the case of pole- ̈ velopments are implicit in Dom-sitters, "marathon" dancers, and inion autonomy and, whatever "marathon" preachers, to men- controversy they may arouse în tion but a few; or it may display the country adopting them, are only eccentricity. Perhaps, in- no concern of the British Govern deed, it is cause for congratula- ment. But in the case of South tion that there is not a greater ||Africa a problem arises that has variety of these attempts, Con- no counterpart elsewhere. Ensidering how widely the term closed by or lying adjacent to her "record" may be stretched, in the territory are three native pro-fashion celebrated by the limerick tectorates, Bechuanaland, Basuto- that relates how:
There was a young fellow cay-
ed Clover,
Who bowled fifteen wides in an
-over,
Which has never been done By a Parson's son,
On a Friday in August at
Dover.
land, and Swaziland, for the gov- ernment of which the British Crown is directly responsible. That responsibility, unwillingly entered upon in the first instance, is based upon long-standing treaties with the paramount chiefs, who craved British pro tection against the pressure upon Exploits that advance the them of early South African bounds of possibility, or that add settlement.
to the sum of knowledge, heed to When the Act constituting the defende; while de for records: ih South African State was passed conjection with sport, one may by the British Parliament in 1809 day that they are but the Trial- a schedule to it: contemplated the dental outcome of a rational ac2 fact that at some future date the tivity, of an activity purined hot protectorates should, under cer- for a record, but for its own stain carefully formulated safe" taske.