Word: windhoek
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...General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...
...dreary beerhalls of Windhoek, capital of South-West Africa, the Hochs! swelled loud and heady last week. The German community, 13,000 strong, was celebrating victory-and revenge-in the first vote of the former German colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...
Died. Prince Hubertus of Prussia, 40, grandson of Germany's late Kaiser Wilhelm, wartime captain in Hitler's Luftwafte, recently a sheep farmer in South Africa; after an appendectomy; in Windhoek, South-West Africa...
...Windhoek. "The name of the street was Göring-strasse. Through Bismarck-strasse and Moltke-strasse, past red-roofed houses set among purple bougainvillaea, it brought me to Kaiser-strasse, a broad highway of shops...
...three they under stood it but answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...