Word: transvaal
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...Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
...prison camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
...November, 30-year-old Sydney Leibbrandt and six of his Rebels went before the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court charged with high treason. For a month Leibbrandt remained calm, arrogant, defiant. Then, last week, into the courtroom strode a bemedaled Nazi parachutist captured in the recent Middle East fighting. Believing his testimony would get his fellow Nazi "honorable" treatment as a prisoner of war, the soldier positively identified Leibbrandt, coolly told how they had trained together as parachutists in Germany...
...Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
...support of Britain at war - just close enough to bring on serious rioting with those of her citizens who do not support Britain at war. To Canada and Australia the war was serious business from the first, but to many dour Afrikaans-speaking Boers of the Rand and the Transvaal in the Union of South Africa it was just another cause for dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers moved into the wilderness to get away from...