18 AUGUST 1928, Page 2

The Nationalist Party in South Africa has anaended its Constitution

upon a proposal' of General) ifertto4 that he which in effect embodies the statements that he made on his return from the Imperial Conference held here in 1020, namely that-the Conference had fulfilled the aspirations of the Party 'towards "independence." Some members of the Party proclaimed their dislokal desire for " independence " in the sense of a Republic outside the Empire, but they found no support among their responsible colleagues, and they gave no hint of what they would do with " independence " of the Empire if they got it, nor of how they would be better off if they emerged as a lonely little republic after an inevitable civil war within the comparatively small white population.- *