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...Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose his virtual dictatorship. Unbowed by defeat, he admits the wrong, dies quietly just as the Boer War is bringing true...
With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals. In St. James's Palace last week he bowed the knee to his sovereign as a Premier in the British Commonwealth of Nations, a position he has held since 1924, then promptly proved that, no matter what his official position, South Africa is still his only loyalty...
...than could most of their bewildered neighbors. Well known to the first group were the depravity of Roehm, the jittery excitableness of Little Man Hitler and Dope Addict Goring, the iconoclastic records of Conservative von Papen and Reactionary von Schleicher, the anomalous position perforce occupied by Grand Old Man Oom Paul von Hindenburg. Many thanks for the two-year build-up which made last week's "purging'' seem logical, the action of its protagonists entirely in character...
...special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose late husband had acquired it during the campaign. The South African High Commissioner arranged for the purchase...
Died. "Mom," 92, biggest female elephant in the U. S., property of Dr. Pierre A. ("Oom the Omnipotent") Bernard; of cardiac rheumatism; in Nyack, N. Y. Circus Romancer Courtney Ryley Cooper sped to Nyack to attend her last moments...