Word: hofmeyr
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Ballinger was re-elected without opposition. Now, as a party leader, she ranks as a speaker after Prime Minister Jan Smuts and his heir apparent, Finance Minister Jan Hofmeyr. Parliament, hostile at first, listens to her with real respect...
...World. As domestic pressure eases, Jan Smuts shows a sharpening distaste for his country's bread-&-butter politics. More & more Smuts tends to leave affairs at home to his able heir apparent, Hon. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Minister of Finance and Education, and his loyal "Harry Hopkins," Louis Esselen. More & more he tends to see himself in the role he has always cherished: an enlightened, holistic statesman of the Empire and the World. He likes to move at the center of things: he popped up rather unexpectedly at the Cairo Conference last November and met Franklin Roosevelt for the first...
...South Africa's Parliament, ardent Nationalist Dr. Daniel François Malan moved that the Union reorganize as a republic outside the British Commonwealth. Last month a weekly partly owned by the Union's Finance Minister Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr had proposed a republic within the British Commonwealth (TIME, Jan. 17). In the Union Parliament, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts replied directly to Dr. Malan, indirectly to Minister Hofmeyr. Said Smuts: "I expect nothing from your republic. I have been hearing about this republic for the last 25 years and I don't take it seriously any more...
...suggestion sprang from a deep South African need. Union leaders like Liberal Afrikanders Smuts and Hofmeyr hope to find for their country a stronger world position in the peace to come. Their hope will be nearer realization when & if they find the key to unity at home...
...Minister Hofmeyr's Editor Cope thus got at two festering divisions in South African life: 1) between the Union's 2,000,000 whites and its 8,000,000 submerged, nonvoting blacks; 2) between the white, minority "English" (mostly second, third or fourth generation) and the white Afrikanders (Dutch and Huguenot descent). Just what a republic would do for the whites, who already have a free vote in the Union's parliamentary system, was not clear; it presumably would do nothing for the blacks...