Word: boer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the Boer War, John Hays Hammond Sr. was sentenced to death for his activities. Later, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Finally he was released on payment of a $125,000 fine. Free and healthy, he lived en to become Chairman of the U. S. Coal Commission and now enjoys a plutocratic...
General Hertzog, like General Smuts and the late General Botha, fought against Britain in the Boer War. Unlike them, however, he has not become entirely reconciled to British rule and was gravely criticized for his part in the rebellion of 1914. He is known for his "segregation-of-the-natives policy" (disenfranchisement of the natives)** and his "two stream policy"* (secession...
...with only his native genius as his heritage to become in time Prime Minister of Great Britain. And now the extraordinary tribute paid in 1906 and the years that followed to the courage and sincerity of the Little Englanders like Campbell-Bannerman and Lloyd-George, who had opposed the Boer War, has been paralleled or surpassed by the vindication of the same qualities in a man who opposed England's entrance into the World War, who, although not a Tolstoyan pacifist, would take no part in recruiting meetings, and who was constantly on th watch for an opportunity for peace...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...
...Twenty years ago Joseph Chamberlain, fresh from his triumphs as Colonial Secretary took up the cry of protection and carried on a whirlwind campaign which ended only in the smashing Conservative defeat of 1906. Led by Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, the Liberals just recovered from the divisions of the Boer war, rode to their greatest victory of the century on the horse of free-trade--a victory they are hoping to repeat by the same means next month...