Word: secessionism
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The Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer...
Botha and Smuts dropped General Hertzog in 1912. He became once more a Republican, stood passively aside in 1914 when a rebellion against the Government's decision to participate in the Great War profoundly disturbed the country. After the War, in 1918, he came boldly to the front, advocated secession...
But it is a far cry from 1918 to the present day and the South African lion has been tamed by the greatest of all tamers?Government responsibility. In June of last year, he succeeded Premier Smuts (TIME, June 30) and with the help of the Labor Party mustered a...
Communiques prophesied that the Government* howitzers would set up their belching chorus of explanation any day, but the day was continually postponed. It was supposed that defense would be offered on the basis that the Government had to indemnify the industrialists for their losses in order to prevent the secession...
Lee was not simple-minded; he was one of the greatest brains produced in the Civil War, ruled by a rigid integrity. His preliminary internal struggle on the question of loyalty to his state as against loyalty to the Union was decided not by a puritanical conception of duty, as...