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Strangely enough this astoundingly incautious orator was not a "Red." He is simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably...
Such extravagant speeches as that made by Prime Minister Hertzog, last week, are to be taken with about as much seriousness as the exaggerated platform promises of U. S. statesmen. Naturally General Hertzog's platform must satisfy his large Dutch secessionist following; and, like many another sly old dog, he relies more on his bark than on his bite...
Even so, however, General Hertzog is by far the most secessionist of all the Dominion Prime Ministers; and at the last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions...
...Moscow "Grain Dictator" is Comrade G. K. Ordijonikidze, who is also one of the three Vice Prime Ministers of the Soviet State.* His duties: to organize the national grain sowing and harvest campaigns, to fix the legal price of grain, to stamp out speculative hoarding or other anti-social procedure. His powers: absolute, and supported by the right to declare in emergency regional Martial...
Since the Prime Minister of Rumania, bearded, bulking, bowed Vintila Bratiano, mortally hates but does not fear the Soviet Power, he ignored Tchitcherin's protest...