Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...measure neared a vote, last week, General Smuts flayed General Hertzog for dragging the great and vital "race question" into party politics. Every South African election is bound to be just another dogfight between Generals Hertzog and Smuts; but there is indeed something awful and "above party" about the fact that throughout the Union of South Africa white skins are in a minority of one to four. That is the "race question," and it may well trouble every British paleface from the King-Emperor down...
...would not be solved by merely deciding to erect new buildings. There is certainly no room for additional structures in the Yard, and the few plots available immediately to the north have the double disadvantage of inaccessibility and of opposition to the projected growth of the college towards the south. The alternative of erecting a group of buildings suitable for class purposes central to the group of dormitories to be installed near the river-and leaving the Yard to the exclusive use of the Freshmen has the advantage of helping to unify both these groups. But the distance factor enters...
...South", Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...
...South", Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...