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During the War it was General Smuts who lined up South Africans, whether English or Dutch blooded, to fight for the Empire. Recently the General, a persona] friend of King George and of potent Englishmen galore, has insisted that South Africa must patriotically join Mother Britain off the gold standard...
"I may say," boomed Judge Roos at Johannesburg, "that neither General Smuts nor Premier Hertzog is capable of founding a coalition to pull the country out of the muck! If they could I should not be in the arena. As things stand, here I am!"
General Smuts did not join Judge Roos last week, but mere talk that a Smuts-Roos coalition might be formed started a frantic rush on South Africa's Reserve Bank. In three days nearly $14,000,000 in Union pounds was either presented for exchange into Union gold sovereigns...
Cutting this link caused the South-African pound to slip from $4.71 to $3.63 on international exchange last week. In Washington, His Excellency Eric H. Louw, South African Minister Plenipotentiary, hastened to comment, "The situation in South Africa is most paradoxical, the result of an acute political situation. . . . There is...
Most notable personal milestone in the one-generation industry occurred when one of its pioneers chose to retire into the chairmanship of the company bearing his name. He was Charles Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was...