Word: munnik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glory of God. The fame of the "Boer Moses," as his critics call him, soon reached the ears of General James Barrie Munnik Hertzog, leader of the Boer opposition party. South Africa had just entered World War I at the side...
...League Covenant, with equal vigor opposed the harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro-Hitler Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, moved in Parliament that South Africa stay neutral. Smuts defeated him at the polls, led South Africa into the war at Britain's side. Later, as a delegate at San Francisco, he helped write the preamble of the United Nations Charter...