Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...
...another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
...period of pioneering in the U. S. was the Covered Wagon Era. Corresponding period in South Africa was the Great Trek. Last week in Pretoria, South Africa, the 100th Anniversary of the Great Trek was celebrated in a wild clash of nostalgic happiness and partisan bitterness...
Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message from King George VI was read in Afrikaans, the Boer language. Then a tattered Transvaal flag, saved from falling into British hands in the Boer War, was unfurled high on the site of a monument soon to be erected to the Voertrekkers...
Three days later in Pretoria, Nazi Minister Emil Wiehl went hustling to protest, "The measures taken in Pretoria are in violation of the terms of the Mandate, and antagonistic to Germans and German interests...