Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, was the last of the big men* who attended the Paris Peace Conference to encounter political defeat...
...results of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa) elections were a foregone conclusion (TIME, June 16), and the fact that the South Africa Party, of which General Smuts is the leader, was defeated by a coalition of the Nationalists and Laborites, who will now have a majority of more than 20 in the new Parliament, occasioned little surprise. The personal defeat of the Premier at Pretoria West was also not unexpected. He is, however, to stand for reelection at Standerton in the Transvaal, that seat having been offered by a Colonel G. M. Claassen who is to resign...
...speech at Grahamstown, General Hertzog once said: "The national life in South Africa flows forth in two streams, each stream having its own language, manners, great men .heroic deeds and noble characters; that this is so is due to history, and nobody is to be blamed and each has his right to the appreciation of the other. When we have developed such a national spirit that we consider these matters as common to both sections, both English and Dutch will say: 'Your language, heroic deeds and great men are ours because we are both "Afrikanders...
...world as follows: Austria 12, Belgium 5½, Bulgaria 7, Czecho-Slovakia 6, Denmark 7, England 4, France 6, Germany 10 (cen-tenmarks) and 90 (old paper marks), Greece 7½, Hungary 18, India 7, Italy 5½, Japan 8, Holland 5, Norway 7, Poland 12, Portugal 9, Rumania 6, South Africa 6, Spain 5, Sweden 5½, Switzerland...
...They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa is underlain by a subterranean sea, 300 feet beneath the surface, connected by passageways with bodies of water beyond Suez...