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No one knows how many millions of Beatrix Potter books have reached the world's children. But there are Peter Rabbits in French, German, Welsh, Spanish and Afrikaans. Sales of the small, standard Peter Rabbit book in the U.S. are still high (60,000 in 1943). Last week, as...
Cope postulated South Africa's problem No. 1 today as the racial deadlock, said it distorts all major issues brought before Parliament and prevents united progressive action on native (Negro) policy, industrialization, agriculture and a dozen other major problems. Wrote he: "Nationalists want an Afrikaans Herrenvolk Republic, British extremists...
Dr. Broom is Keeper of Vertebrate Paleontology & Anthropology in Pretoria's big Transvaal Museum. When the University of Pretoria (whose Boer-descended students are anti-Smuts and anti-British) set up a new medical faculty, it asked Broom to lecture on anatomy, waived the fact that he speaks no...
"There is not a single scientific work of any consequence written in the Afrikaans language. Today nearly all important works on science are being published in the United States-in English. ... If you prefer to confine your reading to Afrikaans, you needn't bother with science."
Brought to trial for treason in South Africa (TIME, Dec. 28), Sydney Leibbrandt turned out to be a German agent, who arrived in a U-boat to organize sabotage and rebellion against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's...