Assessing South Africa's strategic importance
South Africa's strategic value to Britain hinges on resources and coast proximity rather to any guaranteed political control. The piece analyzes whether British investments or raw material access could be threatened, examines shipping routes around the Cape post Suez closure, and critiques Conservative calls for closer ties with South Africa as militarily unnecessary and politically risky. It argues that naval protection can be achieved via convoy doctrine and existing pacts like the Simonstown agreement, without expanding alliance with South Africa, to avoid provoking wider regional tensions.
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South Africa
Britain
Cape of Good Hope
Atlante
Indian Ocean
Ac Sore
Cape
South
West
Middle
Far East
Middle East
Simonstown
South Afric
South Atlantic
South Indian Ocean
Royal Navy
Strange losses and strange finds reappear in unlikely places
A rusted church trunk near Nantwich Cheshire held 17th and 18th century silver worth about £30,000 moved to a bank vault. A Berlin attic stove contained gold coins and jewels worth £35,000 after WWII, then a South Africa garden unearthed a lost wedding ring, and a Sussex roadwork found another ring lost in 1897. A St. Petersburg treasure, the Nutcracker score, surfaced decades later via a refuse tip incinerator discovery.
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England
Nantwich
Cheshire
West Berlin
Berlin
Westphalia
Benoni
Transvaal
South Africa
Arlington
Sussex
St Petersburg
Leningrad
Selected for maths school
The second national summer school for talented school mathematics students will be held at the Australian National University from January 5. Sixty students were selected from all States and the ACT, including Peter Tradinger of Deakin High School, Margaret MacDonald of Canberra Girls Grammar School, and Stephen Warrell of Monaro High School Cooma North. Most students, 19, come from state high schools. Names were announced by the summer school's director, a Professor of Blakmatics at the University of Western Australia.
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Univer
Act
Peter Tradinger
Deakin High School
Margaret MacDonald
Canberra
Stephen Warrell
Monaro High School
Cooma North
University of Westernn Australia
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Existifte
Suez Canal
Buitain
North Atlantic
Panama Canal
Australasia
Afica
Gested
Spain
Greece
Times of London
Angola
Windhoek
Zambia
Botswana
Rhodesia
Pretoria
Africa
Johannesbu
Eso
Stranger
Ring
Young's
Fyshwick
Barrier and Lyell
Sts
Queanbeyan
West End
Monaro Street
Berwick
Brescia
J.B. Young
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