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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Reader De Boer regain his balance by hauling in that extended little finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Free State, most Anglophobic of all South Africa's provinces. Along their route sturdy Boer farmers forsook ploughs and politics to shout greetings. Schoolchildren lined the wayside stations and at one siding a dark, native choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus-"with superb effect," reported the Times of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Lice in the Blanket | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Hammond did not start from scratch. His father, John Hays Hammond Sr., was a fabulous gold-mining engineer. With slam-bang empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, he was involved in the Jameson Raid (which helped to provoke the Boer War) and built up the world's greatest gold-producing region around Johannesburg, South Africa. These activities made him rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Having Wonderful Time | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Prize Exhibits. Of the Dominions, two-Australia and New Zealand-are Socialist, like the mother country; these, along with Canada, are more closely tied to the free-enterprise U.S. than to Britain in matters affecting their national security. South Africa is strategically British, politically split by Boer nationalism, and socially ridden by extreme racism. Eire takes full advantage of its independence; its chief importance in world affairs is as a bottomless reservoir of ill-will toward its once heavy-handed master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dominion so Peculiar | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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