Word: boer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...
Died. Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 80, bemedaled cavalryman who joined the British army in 1889, served with distinction in the Boer War and World War I, became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1920-22) and Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1930-35); in London...
...building is open, as usual, 24 hours a day. Boer is in the ice-box at all times, and no efforts will be spared by the present staff to help make the festivities more festive...
...lopsided plot and sketchy characterization, Author Abrahams' discovery of profound trails of meaning in the tragic Boer trek makes Wild Conquest outstanding in the year's crop of historical novels...