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Hots wisps of fire & brimstone oratory sulphured the news from Capetown last week. It appeared that South Africa's two greatest statesmen had been pitchforking at each other in Parliament on an issue which vitally concerns the whole Empire: Does Dominion Status include the Right of Secession...
...General Hertzog's violent Nationalist Party used to contain a demand that Great Britain recognize the Right of Secession. This was stricken out only after the Imperial Conference at London in 1926 had invented what is called "Dominion Status"* (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926, et seq.). Returning to Capetown after the Conference, the Prime Minister announced that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession, and secure in this right South Africanders have been content not to use it. Squaring himself before the House, conscious that there will be another Imperial Conference within a few months at London, General Hertzog fairly...
Divorced. Sir James Heath. 78, British iron tycoon; by Lady Mary Heath, aviatrix (Capetown-to-London); at Reno, Nev. She called Sir James "the tight knight," said he was "a bit touched...
...bankrupt at sea. Still unmarried and living with him is 22-year-old daughter Eileen for whom his yacht the Eileen, once the Doris, is named. Solly spends most of his time in England in his London office on Austin Friars. At least once a year, however, he visits Capetown. Huge is his wealth but no man has ever publicly estimated...
Since 1923 Government House, Capetown, comfortable home of the Governor General of the Union of South Africa, has been occupied by Queen Mary's amiable younger brother. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone. In 1928 at the earnest request of Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, alive to the advantage of near royalty in Capetown, his term was extended for another three years. Last week His Majesty the King-Emperor was graciously pleased to appoint as his brother-in-law's successor George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, his appointment to become effective...