Word: boers
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...coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes is the fact that Britain's East African empire is in danger of being submerged. "A Black Front," he says, "is advancing from [the Gold Coast]; a White Front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south." Without federation, he told the conference, "the Rhodesias will become the clashing point of those two policies, and will inevitably be compelled to join the White Front...
Both brothers were precocious children. Allen's interest in foreign relations showed up at the age of eight, when he wrote an essay on the Boer War. "I hope the Boers will win the war," he concluded, "for the Boers are in the right and the British in the wrong." Grandfather John W. Foster (Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison) proudly had the work published, and to this day the 31-page pamphlet resides in some of the best U.S. libraries...
They landed Army contracts, and soon Studebaker wagons were rolling into battle at Gettysburg and other Civil War actions. Custer made his last stand on the Little Big Horn separated from his supply tram of Studebakers. In the Boer War, Correspondent Winston Churchill was captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been...
Twenty leaders of South Africa's blacks and coloreds-among them Dr. James S. Moroka, Christian president of the African National Congress-were tried last week for violating the Nationalist government's strict Suppression of Communism Act. Nobody, including Boer Judge Franz Rumpff, thought that Dr. Moroka was a Communist, but the law holds that "any doctrine or scheme . . . which aims at bringing any political, industrial, social or economic change ... by unlawful acts or omissions" is Communism...
Levitation. In his eagerness to put down the blacks, South Africa's Godfearing, intolerant Prime Minister Daniel Malan had pushed through a law making Parliament, and not the supreme court, the final arbiter of what is, or is not, constitutional. But in the five black-robed Boer judges of the supreme court, Malan last week met his match...