Word: weg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natives Out, Beer In. When the Americans turned up at Ulithi, the 300 primitive natives and their paralytic King Ueg (pronounced Weg) agreed to move from Mogmog to mile-long Fassarai, one of the atoll's southern islands. (The Japs had taken the able-bodied natives with them.) Leaving a doctor and a chief pharmacist's mate to administer to the people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many...
Accountable "only to God" for its actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...