Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Those persons who desire to see the disruption of the British Empire will have little cause to rejoice at the outcome of the elections in South Africa. The overwhelming defeat of the secessionist party shows that the Boers, at least, will not be the ones to inaugurate a dismemberment movement...
...Cape colonies the independence movement reached its climax with the recent elections. Had the present prime-minister of the Union of South Africa, General Jan Smuts, been defeated by General Herzog and the labor leader, Robert J. Creswell, representing the secessionist faction, the outcome would undoubtedly have meant withdrawal from the Empire. General Smuts, however, by his decisive victory has assuredly prevented any such occurrence and has shown England that a cool-headed and self-respecting people can be relied upon in such an internal crisis...