>Just to let you know, it is now known as the South African war and not as >the Anglo-Boer war or the very Apartheid era term "Boer war".
By whom? Incidentally, de jure Apartheid began in 1948, nearly half a century after the end of the "Second" (as pedants like to designate it) Boer War. "I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.... Fortune is rightly malignant to those who break with the traditions and customs of the past....If we do not make a stand we shall in a few weeks be asked to call Leghorn Livorno, and the BBC will be pronouncing Paris 'Paree.' Foreign names were made for Englishmen, not Englishmen for foreign names. I date this minute from St. George’s Day." -WSC to the Foreign Office, 23 April 1945 The facts have not prevented ignorant people from blaming Apartheid on Smuts and Churchill. But it was Smuts who established and supported the Fagan Commission, which advocated the abandonment of all segregation in South Africa, and probably cost him the 1948 election. Smuts died two years after Apartheid was implemented. See FINEST HOUR 136, Autumn 2007, pp 52-54 (http://xrl.us/otdqd). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
