The South-African crisis - pagina 54

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

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that

it

CRISIS.

respected this right of veto there was no

rence or coUision possible

if

both parties to the

diffe-

treat}:^

had been honest in their deahngs. Over the Transvaal England had a certain supremacy, a supremacy which took

origin from a bilateral convention, the sub-

its

stance of which

was defined by

and that

article 4,

South African Republic acknow^ledged

the

substance,

without reticence or evasion.

We

arrive at the

same conclusion

in following the

reasoning to

which Downing Street has accustomed

There

fond of saying that the Queen

us.

the}^ are

who

from 1877 was sovereign of the Transvaal ceded in 18S1 a portion of her right of sovereignty. Granted but in any !

what she retained was nothing

case

was expressly stipulated vention of 1881.

And

more than what

for in the articles of the Con-

anew the

as in 1884, she ceded

greater part of the rights which she had reserved in 1881, to

it

her

is

perfectly evident that

of her former rights

is

now

all

that remains

the veto in art. 4 of

the Convention of 1884; neither more nor

less.

was not the point of view of Mr. Kruger who,

a violation of the treaty of the Sand Iliver.

we come back over

most

has always stigmatised the occupation of 1877

of us, as

like

That

the

obligations

of her

to the .

Transvaal

right

same point. The supremacy England under her treaty-

that

only

make

of veto,

a

can

But

valid consists exclusively

right

which the Transvaal

has never contested.

Mr.

Chamberlain,

on the contrary, has desperately

clung, not to the definition, but to a of

wide conception

suzerainty in order to deduce from

it

a species of

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