Eight years after the signature of the Peace of Vereeniging the Union of South Africa: as a fully self-zoverning Dominion of the British Em-ite, was proclaimed on May 31, 1010. Monday was therefore South Africa's National Day and was celebrated. fas such by South Africans every where, including Shanghai, South Africans—Afrikaners and" British alike—join in remembrance of a his-{orle event which signalized the dove-lopment of their national unity from, the honourable Uquidation of a strug gle wherein 70,000 'Transvasters and 'Orange Free Staters defied the British Empire for more than two and q halt years and yielded only' after 300,000 British troops had taken the feld, 'Although the two main component in the European population of South 'Africa preserve their racial identity—528 per cent. of Dutch and 33.7 per cent. of British origin according' to the census. of 1926—the currents of national feeling have happily flowed into channels which have strengthened rather than Weakened the sense unity. South African Nationalism ras, at times, given rise to cone troversy but that dimeulty has diminished in recent years. To-day South Africa is playing an important part in the Imperial Conference at London. A South African statemnan, for the first time, represents the Crown as Governor-General ut Pre-{torla, "Moreover the healing influence of time has helped further to vindi-Jeate the bold policy of the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman with the result that, despite the existence of many delicate problems, the relations between the Dominion and the Empire [2s 4 whole are of the happiest. de: scription, Not the least pleasant deve Jopments of recent history have been the Feconsideration of the personal issues of the struggle of nearly forly years and the consequent recognition Jéy Englishmen of the sterling quallties of the great Boer statesmen, Paul Fruger, whose reputation, "now that the mists of animosity and prejudice ave been removed, has emerged as to stand beside, if not above, that fof Cecil Rhodes in the esteem of /South Africans,
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