Word: munnik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons...
...mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
What was described as the last racial issue in the Union of South Africa was last week removed when Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, now leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly (lower House) at Cape Town, agreed that henceforth the Union Jack should be flown from official buildings in all large towns. In addition a new South African flag, in every respect co-equal with the Union Jack, was decided upon...
Stretching back into Africa from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean are four British areas* which Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has long urged should achieve unity as the Federation of East Africa...
...present, however, more in the foreground than either of these gentlemen is James Barry Munnik Hertzog who, in June of last year, succeeded General Smuts as Prime Minister of the Dominion. Hertzog fought without distinction as a Boer General against the British in the South African War (1899-1902), but in negotiating the Peace of Vereeniging, he rose to equal prominence with Generals Botha and Smuts, his brother officers. For a decade, he worked with these...