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Shouldering his way to Mr. Havenga's side came the Prime Minister, General Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog, bitter foe of General Smuts. The Constitution of General Hertzog's violent Nationalist Party used to contain a demand that Great Britain recognize the Right of Secession. This was stricken out only after the Imperial Conference at London in 1926 had invented what is called "Dominion Status"* (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926, et seq.). Returning to Capetown after the Conference, the Prime Minister announced that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession, and secure in this right South Africanders have been...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, foe of Yen and Feng and "President of China" in name if not in fact, was reported leading his Nanking armies on no less than three fronts at once, was rumored to have contracted gangrene from a wound in the arm, was positively declared in Shanghai by some of his closest political associates to be dead - not that anyone exactly believed...
...Presan, Professor Nicolae Iorga (once tutor to the King), or any other arch-Carolist. In effect the new Maniu cabinet is the same as his old one of fortnight ago, and his peasant party remains supreme in Rumanian politics. Impotent Vintila Bratianu, liberal leader and onetime Prime Minister, bitterest foe of Carol, was credited last week with shouting (at his Carolist nephew George Bratianu): "I'll kill Carol myself?with anything?with a kitchen knife...
...Ramsay MacDonald faced a turbulent House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who, by abstaining with 50 Liberals, spared the Government defeat, complained ominously: "Mr. Snowden treats me nowadays as if I were Mr. Churchill!"* (bitterest Snowden foe). An impression grew that Scot MacDonald may be riding for a fall, partly due to Chancellor Snowden's tsaristic way with the Cabinet's friends, partly because Minister-in-Charge-of-Unemployment James Henry Thomas is "up against it" (as he himself said last week), but chiefly because...
...nine rejections. John Rutledge was refused confirmation as Chief Justice by a Federalist Senate because of his denunciation of the Jay Treaty. President Buchanan saw Jeremiah Sullivan Black of South Carolina rejected in February 1861 because of the rising political passions preceding the Civil War. President Cleveland's bitter foe, New York's Senator David Bennett Hill, succeeded in slaughtering two of Cleveland's Supreme Court appointments in one month...