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Twerpitude. In Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Thomas Evans and Peter Heary were fined ?5 & ?3 for applying to Supreme Court Justice Walter Thrash "a British epithet, untranslatable, but unmistakably offensive." The epithet: "twerp...
...Algeria are immobilized. Gibraltar is now the principal way station for bombers flown from Britain to North Africa, and perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The counter-preparations were well along. Allied strategists hoped that the Axis had missed the boat to Gibraltar...
...Crow law was refined last week in Natal, South Africa. Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
Judge-President Roy Hathorn, with the concurrence of all other Natal judges, ruled that visiting troops hereafter involved in such cases shall be given suspended sentences. The Judge-President's reasons: 1) it is hard for them to realize the criminal nature of their offense in Natal; 2) temptation is strong in local shebeens (speakeasies); 3) it is undesirable to imprison soldiers needed for fighting the war. Since native offenders are presumed to know the law, they will continue to go to jail...
Another issue dividing the House is the appropriation for the Farm Security Administration. That agency exists to enable marginal farmers to pay their way out of debt. The Farm Bureau, lobby of the wealthier farmers, has opposed the FSA since its natal day, and most Representatives have knuckled under without a murmur. As a result, the most important single agency treating the farm problem has been crippled...