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...called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching at Ottawa's Imperial Economic Conference...
Paradoxically, gold-rich South Africa has a current budgetary deficit of almost $6.000.000. "But there is no doubt," stoutly declared Finance Minister N. C. Havenga last week, "that, despite diminishing revenues, we have ample resources to keep our currency on the gold standard...
South Africa's pound has not left the gold standard. Moreover, the Union's House of Assembly passed 78 to 53 last week the Emergency Finance Bill brought in by Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga expressly to keep South Africa's currency on a gold basis. Puffing with patriotism. Cape Town papers besought the Government to drop a monetary term so misleading in the circumstances as "pound...
...what you say is right," shouted Minister of Finance N. C. Havenga, white with anger, "this is not the end of secession but it may well be the beginning...
Shouldering his way to Mr. Havenga's side came the Prime Minister, General Hon. James 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...