Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bailey, 75, hearty South African financier, sportsman, politician; in Cape Town. Lured to the Transvaal by gold, this "world's greatest gambler" speculated his way in & out of many a fortune, helped to bring about the union of South Africa. He was decorated for his part in the Boer War, was knighted in 1911. In 1937 Cape Town, believing Sir Abe dead after his leg had been amputated, dropped its flags to half-mast. Next year the doughty oldster lost his other leg, forestalled half-mastery by issuing a bulletin announcing that he was doing fine...
...Beginning roughly with the Boer War, the introduction of rapid-fire small arms and cannon, and later the combination of the entrenched machine-gun and the barbed-wire entanglement, tilted the balance between the defense and the offense markedly in favor of the former. The great stabilized fronts of 1914-18 seemed to emphasize this growing power of the defense. . . . The idea reached its peak in the later writings of Liddell Hart, at one time recognized as the leading British military critic and in his early years an outstanding advocate of the offensive principle of surprise...
...crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond of U. S. Westerns and Spanish-American war ballads. Stellenbosch Boys is a rousing bumpkin march. The set's three discs provide other good discoveries...
Phillip H. Sears scholarship to Jesse De Boer 1G, of Grand Rapids, Mich...
Last week loyal subjects glowed and grinned as they read the breezy and colloquial first messages of new Prime Minister Winston Churchill to His Majesty's farflung Governments down under and up top. Mr. Churchill, who fought as a youth in the Boer War and has taken the world for his apple all his life, whipped out a cable to South African Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts: It Is A Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And The Peoples Of The Union...