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With voting day only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...
...historian, as well as statesman, Churchill refuses to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire; he leaves his story just before the beginning of the end, with the death of Queen Victoria and the Boer War. It is astonishing to recall that Historian Churchill himself was once a prisoner of that war, almost 60 years ago. It helps to explain the confidence with which Churchill cuffs the past about into its proper Churchillian posture. When schools are better, his books will be required texts...
...Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...
...understanding of the transition from Empire to Commonwealth." His Ph.D. thesis was a study of "The Round Table," an important group of publicists and politicians which emerged from Oxford in the late 1890's and joined in an association in London. They were influential in settling the Boer War and in writing the new South African constitution...
...sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear, from the station to his squalid home. Tsotsism is a problem older than the Boer government's apartheid policy, but apartheid has aggravated...