Word: munnik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pretoria farm Death came last week to Great Britain's most famed South African enemy, stern, pious General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities...
...When Prime Minister Smuts came into office with the outbreak of war in 1939, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister for 15 years, gathered a mixed anti-war opposition. Dr. Malan shortly ousted Hertzog from the Party leadership, and the veteran Germanophile politician retired to his Wilge River farm near Pretoria...
...greatest Boer leaders have been two of that war's generals, now white-bearded ancients, Jan Christiaan Smuts and James Barry Munnik Hertzog. For four decades these two have stood as figureheads for the Union's divergent political ideals: Smuts for a dominion umbilically tied to Britain, Hertzog for "South Africa First." Neither wanted independence, and when in 1933 a vocal minority was yelping for a republic the generals got together. Prime Minister Hertzog joined his Nationalists with Smuts's South Africa Party, made Smuts his Deputy Prime Minister...
Benign-looking old General James Barry Munnik Hertzog resigned as Prime Minister of South Africa at war's outbreak because Parliament rejected his proposal to keep the Union neutral. Last month he resigned as leader of the Reunited Nationalist Party because the party rejected his program of independence for the Union. Last week, no longer a voice but only a squeak in South African politics, 74-year-old General Hertzog resigned his seat in Parliament, retired from politics to devote the rest of his life to "loyal service to the people...
...would recover lost German South-West Africa and the rest of the Union of South Africa would be left free to make its own choice. The joker in that was that before the choice was made the Axis might impose on South Africa somebody like onetime Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who never wanted to fight Germany in the first place...