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Rumors of the downfall of the Cabinet of General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who wants to return to the gold standard as soon as possible, gave wild speculation another fillip. Both Judge Tielman Roos, who is trying to split the Hertzog Party, and Opposition Leader General Jan Christiaan Smuts, a personal friend of George V, were mentioned as the coming "Boom Premier...
Hating some Englishmen and fearing no man, stubborn, elderly Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has battled mightily to keep his dominion on the gold standard. All other dominions and the Mother Country are off. Ever since sterling slipped, English economists have been favoring South Africa with advice and appeals to "link your pound with sterling." Because Premier Hertzog is Dutch-blooded, Englishmen started a limerick in London which has spread to Capetown...
...vexing the Bank of England by keeping their local pounds & shillings on the gold standard. Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears. "While I remain Premier," has declared militant, Dutch-blooded South African Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog, "we shall remain on gold...
...South African florin will be worth 11.30016 grains of pure gold and 100 cents will make a florin. But that will not be all. Patriotically last week Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog proposed that ten florins shall make a rand. He was roundly cheered. In the Netherlands there is no rand. From South Africa's famed Rand comes every year more than half the world's new gold...
General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, bushy-eyebrowed Premier of South Africa, decided last week that "pound" is no longer a fit name for the Union's unit of currency. "Pound" suggests something that has gone off the gold standard, namely Great Britain's pound...