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Significance. Plainly the Simon Report is an absolute denial of St. Gandhi's demand for Independence, and offers no more than a distant hope of dominion status. Although permeated with goodwill (not mere condescension) it has an underlying note of pessimism, fruit of its members' struggles to deal with facts and figures almost too gigantic to be grasped. Example: the Commission deplores that only 2.8% of the population of British India are enfranchised to vote for members of the provincial councils, and views not without sympathy the Gandhite demand for 100% enfranchisement of all adults before the next...
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...
...York former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts angered and astonished a majority of the Union of South Africa's House of Assembly (Lower House) when he told them without mincing that they cannot secede from the Empire without the consent of Great Britain and every other Dominion. If the Union of South Africa were competent to secede, he warned, then "Ireland would be competent to abolish the Kingship [of George V in Ireland] or to substitute another Royal House, and the result would tend inevitably to the disruption of the Empire...
...Barry Munnik Hertzog, bitter foe of General Smuts. The Constitution of 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...
Vital to Canada has been the need of rehabilitating British Empire Steel. In scope and assets the company is second only to the Dominion's two railroads. Practically the entire industrial life of Nova Scotia depends on it. Yet the task has been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both...