Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Created a batch of new military awards, topped by the "Cape of Good Hope" decoration, a five-sided disk which takes precedence over all other decorations, orders and medals. South African heroes of the two World Wars who won Britain's coveted V.C. (Victoria Cross) at Flanders or El Alamein may still wear their medals, but these are now to be regarded as "foreign" decorations...
Politically, the church has not been so fastidious. Claiming two-thirds of South Africa's 1,500,000 Boers as members, it has been a powerful and unabashed leader of extreme Boer nationalism. During World War II, Reformed predikants (Afrikaans for "pastors") refused to baptize children of South African soldiers who were fighting with the British against the Germans. Daniel Malan, once a predikant himself, has lined up most of his fellow clergymen behind his rabble-rousing campaign for apartheid (race segregation policy). "The Negroes," the church has officially announced, "cannot have the vote because they are incapable...
...painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they told...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...