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...times (15 years). He shrewdly played Russia, Turkey and the Balkan countries off against one another, kept peace in Europe. After Bismarck's retirement (1890), Salisbury was the most influential statesman in Europe. He made the French drop their claim to Egypt, and (as Prime Minister) brought the Boer War to an end. Salisbury was an intellectual, a wit, a student of theology and science, and a tolerant Conservative: "There is much," he said, "which it is highly undesirable to conserve...
Samuel H. Boer, associate professor of Government, will give the first lecture in February. Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, will deliver the second lecture March 6. Jordan will follow on April 10, and Helen M. Cam, Zemurray Professor of History...
...Offord Darcy) has 536 inhabitants, 129 cats, 70 dogs, 275 bicycles, 46 motorcars, 167 radios and 17 TV sets. It has lived through the threat of the Armada, when 15 stalwart citizens went off to war bearing pike, arquebus and sword. The village lost one man during the Boer War, 20 in World War I, four in World...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan celebrated his 77th birthday in Cape Town's House of Assembly. His wife gave him a homebaked, old-fashioned Boer pie, called a "milk tart"; the Nationalist party bigwigs came through with a desk and a black leather briefcase. In return, Africa-Firster Malan pledged once again to cut the Dominion loose from the British Commonwealth. Said he: "We shall become a republic. We must become a republic...
...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...