Word: secessionism
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"If 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 of it!"
"We have had the question of secession before us here in South Africa," concluded General Smuts suavely, "but that question has now been eliminated."
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?
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...
A hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the students, discontinued them. He was Dr. Thomas Chalmers, kindling and original personality, whose principal claim to fame...