BTW Apartheid South Africa didn't use the term "The Boer War". they called it
The Second War of Independence.
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:35:17 -0700> Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: NEW BOOK
> BY ANDREW ROBERTS> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> > > >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).> > >
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