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"They are storm clouds driving on beneath us," replied her mother. "What are yonder white clouds that rise so high?" asked Helga again. "Those are the mountains covered with perpetual snow which you see yonder," replied her mother. And they flew across the lofty Alps towards the blue Mediterranean. "Africa's land!
When I went on board, I only intended to go to Chili. It was always a good half of the way between New Zealand and Angola, and I was drawing nearer Africa's coast by several thousand miles. But it so happened that only three weeks after leaving Auckland, Captain Hull, who commanded the 'Pilgrim, disappeared with all his crew, while chasing a whale.
Another tenet of this Administration's approach to African problems has been encouragement and support for regional solutions to Africa's problems. We have supported initiatives by the Organization of African Unity to solve the protracted conflict in the western Sahara, Chad, and the Horn.
On foot, alone, undaunted, high-souled, with but a simple sword, and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fiercest lions that Africa's forests ever bred! Thy own deeds be thy praise, valiant Manchegan, and here I leave them as they stand, wanting the words wherewith to glorify them!"
South Africa and Australia "hushed" so very hard and were so very careful that after a very extensive experience 150,000 Hindus settled in one colony both colonies legislated to shut them out altogether. At least South Africa's educational test amounted to that, and South Africa and Australia are quite as imperial as Canada. Why did they do it?
The address of the Bloemfontein Town Council very carefully avoids any reference to the proposed Over-Sea Colony. Perhaps the whole secret of South Africa's indifference to it is revealed in the following extract from a paper, whose name we omit, lest any appearance of hostility to any locality or any element in that enormous country should seem to have crept into our feelings here.
Oh yes, it's all over the place; Schleiermacher of Jena has succeeded in making the most perfect diamonds for sixpence apiece as good as real and South Africa's ancient history. In less than six weeks Kimberley, they say, will be a howling desert.
'Promise me you'll not leave the Station, so help you, at least not till I come back. Miss Moore plunged for a particular shallow just when I was floating in gay generalities. 'Let me have till to-morrow, I asked. Then I spoke in Africa's defense, setting out her case as well as I could. 'She's emphatically a feminine continent, I said.
In the face of these figures you can readily see what an economic advantage is accruing to the Union of South Africa with reference to the whole vexing question of coal supply. We can now go into the larger matter of South Africa's business situation in the light of peace and world reconstruction.
We see Europe's greatest sin precisely where we found Africa's and Asia's, in human hatred, the despising of men; with this difference, however: Europe has the awful lesson of the past before her, has the splendid results of widened areas of tolerance, sympathy, and love among men, and she faces a greater, an infinitely greater, world of men than any preceding civilization ever faced.
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