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...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...
...Berlin the High Command announced that South African harbors are being mined by German naval units. This and The Netherlands' invasion made the Dutch blood of the Boers boil. Even Vaderland, organ of Anglophobe Opposition Leader General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who was voted out of office when he tried to keep South Africa from declaring war on Germany, last week said of the invasion of The Netherlands: "This great crime will be repaid by history...
...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...