Africa celebrates the silver jubilee formation and receives the cordial congratulations of the: Empire in which it now plays so honourable a part. It has been fortunate in the calibre of its own home-grown statesmen and also of the men whom the King has appointed from time to time as his! personal representative. Following the able work of Lord Milner, and Lord Selborne, the frst Governor-General of the Union, Viscount Gladstone—the son of the great Liberal statesman—well and truly aid the foundations of the then young Dominion. He was succeeded by Lord Buxton, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the Earl of Athlone and the Earl of Clarendon. Thus, with Canada, the senior} Dominion, South "Africa has shared the honour of having two Governors-General from the Royal House—the King's cousin and the King's brother-in-law. The sense of security inherent in the relations between the Union and the Mother Country could hardly be more effectively illustrated. And, in a great measure, South Africa must be considered to have made an impressive contribution to the development of the Imperial idea in its broader and nobler cheracteristics. This is all the more appropriate because the dramatic grant of self-government in 1906 to the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies was politically a protest] against the "Jingo" strain of "Impenalism" which was held to have
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