Word: botha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconstituted Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety in Europe...
...campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...
...such a miracle of trust and magnanimity ever happened before? Only people like the English could do it. They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister, both were accused by diehard Boers of being turncoats. Botha was the popular idol but Smuts was the brains of the administration. Discontented criticism centred...
...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...
...another part of South Africa another kind of food fell from the heavens last week, was greedily gobbled. This food, genuine Biblical manna, descended in a white cloud on a 30-acre field at the farm of Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...