Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union of South Africa's aging Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, with a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, fought for three years against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in this one. For the Union is made up of four polyglot provinces, two Crown colonies and controls by League mandate a former colony of Germany's, and the outstanding element in its history has been the internal clash of nationalities-natives, Dutchmen, Britons, Germans-not its interest in Europe...
When World War I broke out, the Assembly of the Union of South Africa voted unenthusiastically to join on Britain's side -so unenthusiastically that there was a short, angry civil war before South Africa was able to turn on its German neighbor, South West Africa, and conquer it. After the War national lines were sharper than ever. The rise of the Hitler regime in Germany was reflected in South Africa by the outcropping of Nazi cells from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Last April it was rumored the Nazis were ready to seize South West Africa...
...after Prime Minister Hertzog told the House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to-66) the Union scrambled on the Empire war-wagon, hellbent for the precipice...
...chartered all available vessels to evacuate some 17,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe, but labor trouble delayed the sailings. For every U. S. seaman shipping to war zones the National Maritime Union demanded a $250 bonus, $25,000 insurance. Ships finally got under way when the Maritime Commission promised that any bonuses later agreed upon would be retroactive...
...Union Carbide & Carbon's directors approved the purchase of Bakelite Corp. (for some $15,375,000 worth of Carbide stock), thus adding a major plastics division to its big chemical business...