Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trade. The opening of large South American markets to British goods was predicted by Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon, oldtime diplomat, just back from a trade mission (TIME, Sept. 23) to that continent...
...which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...
Forward thinking, even brash in his public policies is General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase...
...Jerusalem last week the British Crown tried to prosecute an Arab, potent Sheik Taleb Maraka, for instigating the "Hebron Massacre" of Jews (TIME, Sept. 9) August upon the Bench in beehive wigs and flowing gowns sat Mr. Justice Corrie and Mr. Justice Defreitas. This was going to be an exemplary trial. The Arab prisoner would be grilled by an Arab prosecutor. There were plenty of prosecution witnesses, already lamenting and smiting their breasts in the corridor. With an easy sauntering stride and a smile of contempt for the witnesses Prisoner Sheik Taleb Maraka entered, was escorted to the dock...
...contradictory questions. Even so the witnesses managed to testify that they had seen Sheik Taleb Maraka publicly inciting Arabs to massacre, shouting that the faithful could settle any debts they might owe to Jews by slaughtering their creditors. One witness who thus testified was Superintendent Cafferata of the local British Police. When the Arab prosecutor sought to question Mr. Cafferata only on irrelevant topics, Mr. Justices Corrie and Defreitas became incensed, ordered another Arab to prosecute for the Crown on the morrow...