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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...
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...
...them or us," growled a Port Elizabeth cop. "A white skin now means death." Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government sent army tanks and armored cars to patrol the highway between East London and Port Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time is coming," warned Labor Minister Ben Schoeman, "when our white women also must carry arms...
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...
Born: London, on Feb. 3, 1904, the eldest son of Boer War hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins...