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...Frank Harris has been to all the great houses of England-once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words and credit. He loved England, yet became a pro-German propagandist in the U.S. during World...
...Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, have long opposed the South African government's all-out segregation policy. Now, for the first time since apartheid was officially proclaimed South Africa's "way of life" twelve years ago, members of the ruling Boer Afrikaner National Party are beginning to speak and fight against...
Pagan's measured pronouncements, serialized in the largest Afrikaner newspaper, Die Landstem, brought in a flood of approving letters, including some from unknown farmers pleading with Fagan to lead a political movement. In his airy house outside Cape Town, Old Boer Fagan referred all callers to Jacobus Basson, 41, the fiery, redheaded Nationalist M.P. who was expelled from the party last fall. He had protested Prime Minister Verwoerd's decision to end the last semblance of black representation in Parliament: whites voting in the Africans' name. Last week, after meeting with some 50 other Nationalists who think...
...onetime Hollywood bit-player cowboy who towers 6 ft. 7 in., managed a perpetual wan smile, and by the time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed a resolution urging party members...
Died. Victor McLaglen, 72, adventurer on and off the movie screen; of congestive heart failure; in Newport Beach, Calif. Born in England, brought up in South Africa, hulking (6 ft. 3 in., more than 200 lbs.) Victor McLaglen fought in the Boer War (1899-1902), dug for gold in Canada, won an Oscar for his lead performance in The Informer...