'The establishment of the advisory conference would not, of course, affeet the present responsibility of the' United Kingdom Government for the Kovernment of the three territories.
Mr. MacDonald stated that it had been arranged that the Union Government should prepare a memorandum with 4, view, 1 making it cleat to the the territories terms on which the transfer, if decided upon, would take place. Such terms would, naturally, follow closely the provisions of the schedule to the South Africa Act.
had seemed important to Gen. 3. B, M, Hertzog (Prime Minister of South Africa) and himself that the Union Government should sot them, out in a convenient and more complete form. 'Thus, the peoples of the Territories might. appreciate the conditions under which the territories would be governed, in the event of transfer, and their position regard Jing the maintenance of tribal institu tions of the natives' economic advan tages, which the Union anticipated would accrue to the peoples of the territories, These announcements followed the intimation that the opportunity afforded by Gen. Hertzog's London visit for the Coronation had been taken for further exchanges on the subject of High Commission terri tories, which had been continued since:
"These had resulted in common. recognition of the principles already proclaimed on previous occasions by both sides, and on that basis Mr. MacDonald and Gen. Hertzog had been jointly studying "what is the est and most practical course to
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