Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigging an alternative Lifeline of Empire around Africa which may soon become in British minds the Lifeline of Empire, Sir Samuel Hoare had on his hands last week an exceedingly tough subject of His Majesty with whom to deal, Union of South Africa's dynamic Defense Minister Oswald Pirow...
...best (at his exceedingly safe distance from Benito Mussolini) to make Mr. Baldwin seem cowardly in not pressing Sanctions against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey. Mr. Pirow called on the Secretary for Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm...
...bold purpose of Oswald Pirow and his chief, Premier Hertzog, was understood in London to rest on their assumption that the Mother Country must establish an imperial and oceanic naval base of the first magnitude on the new Lifeline of Empire, presumably at or near Capetown, and that for the right to do so she could be made to pay a stiff price by South Africa...
...Oswald Pirow was authoritatively said to want: 1) surrender by Britain to South Africa of the so-called "native protectorates" in the dominion to make its sovereignty complete; 2) Britain to pay the enormous cost of establishing near Capetown a naval base ranking with $150,000,000 Singapore, but South Africa to retain full sovereignty over the territory of the base; 3) Great Britain to recognize explicitly that South Africa is not bound to participate in a war entered by the Mother Country; 4) mutual agreement between Mother and Daughter that if, as South Africa anticipates, the Government of Portugal...
...Anyone who is acquainted with American University graduates in the liberal and radical movements must remark the high proportion of Harvard men," the article states. Brief reference is made to the radical activities of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Felix Frankfurter, Lloyd K. Garrison '19, prominently mentioned as a candidate to succeed Dean Pound of the Law School, and many others...