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...paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General Graziani's flank from the difficult waterless lands of Ogaden Province...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
During the Boer War well-fleshed young Lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi organized an ambulance corps and personally led it under fire to the succor of British troops with such bravery that he received the official thanks of Queen Victoria's Government...
...fifth of those mobilized, suffered from typhoid-1,580 died- during the brief War with Spain. Simultaneously Dr. Wright, as a member of the India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every one of the 100,000 British soldiers who fought in the Boer War (1902) inoculated. Immediately thereafter (1902-07) he set up the system of therapeutic inoculations (vaccinotherapy) which can usually render bacterial infections harmless to man. One of its beneficial results occurred during the World War when of 2,000,000 U. S. soldiers inoculated before they sailed to fight...
With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals. In St. James's Palace last week he bowed the knee to his sovereign as a Premier in the British Commonwealth of Nations, a position he has held since 1924, then promptly proved that, no matter what his official position, South Africa is still his only loyalty...