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...Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession from the Empire is as dead as a dodo." ¶ In Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought...
Rumors of the downfall of the Cabinet of General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who wants to return to the gold standard as soon as possible, gave wild speculation another fillip. Both Judge Tielman Roos, who is trying to split the Hertzog Party, and Opposition Leader General Jan Christiaan Smuts, a personal friend of George V, were mentioned as the coming "Boom Premier...
...world's current supply of new gold. In 1931, latest year for which statistics are complete, the world mined $440,518,000 in gold of which South Africa, supplied $224,863,000. Last spring, when the Union had a budgetary deficit of $6,000,000, Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan, Havenga in effect snapped his Dutch fingers, confidently cried: "There is no doubt that, despite diminishing revenues, we have ample resources to keep our currency on the gold standard!" (TIME, April...
...prospect of paying their golddiggers in devaluated paper while continuing to sell their gold abroad for its unvariable, basic value which is the cornerstone of international finance. Finally Judge Roos appealed to the arch enemy of his own Nationalist Party which he was trying to split-to Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...have called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching at Ottawa's Imperial Economic...