Word: hertzog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union of South Africa's aging Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, with a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, fought for three years against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in this one. For the Union is made up of four polyglot provinces, two Crown colonies and controls by League mandate a former colony of Germany's, and the outstanding element in its history has been the internal clash of nationalities-natives, Dutchmen, Britons, Germans-not its interest in Europe...
...after Prime Minister Hertzog told the House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to-66) the Union scrambled on the Empire war-wagon, hellbent for the precipice...
...Smuts, Minister of Justice and hero of World War I, cautioned South Africans to discuss World War II as little as possible because they "are living far away and are not conversant with the facts." No official word was yet forthcoming from South Africa's boss, Prime Minister Hertzog. Possibly none could be expected until the guns began to shoot...
...British Government can get its own press to blow hot or cold as it desires, can often indirectly influence the press of other countries. Notable it was that last week U. S. pundits like Walter Lippmann, Edwin L. James, Dorothy Thompson, William Philip Simms, joined faraway Prime Minister Hertzog of South Africa in being optimistic about a Spring of Peace...
Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message from King George VI was read in Afrikaans, the Boer language. Then a tattered Transvaal flag, saved from falling into British hands in the Boer War, was unfurled high on the site of a monument soon to be erected to the Voertrekkers...