Word: oswald
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...OSWALD...
...best (at his exceedingly safe distance from Benito Mussolini) to make Mr. Baldwin seem cowardly in not pressing Sanctions against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey. Mr. Pirow called on the Secretary for Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm...
...bold purpose of Oswald Pirow and his chief, Premier Hertzog, was understood in London to rest on their assumption that the Mother Country must establish an imperial and oceanic naval base of the first magnitude on the new Lifeline of Empire, presumably at or near Capetown, and that for the right to do so she could be made to pay a stiff price by South Africa...
...Oswald Pirow was authoritatively said to want: 1) surrender by Britain to South Africa of the so-called "native protectorates" in the dominion to make its sovereignty complete; 2) Britain to pay the enormous cost of establishing near Capetown a naval base ranking with $150,000,000 Singapore, but South Africa to retain full sovereignty over the territory of the base; 3) Great Britain to recognize explicitly that South Africa is not bound to participate in a war entered by the Mother Country; 4) mutual agreement between Mother and Daughter that if, as South Africa anticipates, the Government of Portugal...
...London as the naval base dickering began was the Admiralty's keen Vice Admiral Sir Edward Ratdiffe Garth Russell Evans, lately commander in chief of the Navy's Africa Station. Sir Edward is supposed to be deep in the confidence of his friend South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow, so much so that some British editors spoke of what was under discussion as "the Pirow-Evans Defense Plan." It was supposed to envision, in addition to what Mr. Pirow asked of Great Britain, the following contributions by South Africa: 1) raising of a great South African air battle...