Word: africa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...played tennis and polo, the Prince returned to the sea and the Repulse, which, amid the cheering hullabaloo from the shore, turned her bows toward the south and churned her way to Cape Town, the point de départ for an extended tour of the Union of South Africa...
Hosts. In South Africa, the scene was set for the reception of the Prince. At the head of the receiving line of a nation of 7,000,000 blacks, yellows, semi-whites, whites, stood three veterans of government?Athlone, Smuts, Hertzog...
General Jan Christian Smuts, of Dutch descent, acquired fame in the Boer War, and a share of immortality as joint-father of the League of Nations. He, an "Imperialist," in the sense of keeping South Africa in the British Empire, is already at Cape Town where he is leader of the Opposition in the Dominion Legislature...
...chief drawbacks to the rapid development of the Katanga properties consist in transportation and labor. A labor shortage in Central Africa is slowing up the completion of the Benguella R. R., the future outlet for the mines to the seacoast...
WHITE CARGO-Wherein morals dry up under the blazing sun of Africa and the white man finds a native solution to the problem of loneliness...