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Papers of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
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Correspondents: E. Balogh, N. Bennet, L. Blackwell, Sir R.L. Burnett, W.H. Clark, J.P. Cope, N.J. de Wet, Eugenie (Princess Radziwill of Greece), Bishop C.J. Ferguson-Davie, S.H. Frankel, W. Hills, Sir J. Hubback, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, L. Karovsky, L. Maingard, P. Millin, A.V. Murray, L.D.E. Murray, V. Norton, Sir E. Oppenheimer, Bishop W. Parker, G. Saron, C.J. Sibbett, D.L. Smit, J.C. Smuts, B. Solomon, S. Solomon, M. Steyn, F.C. Sturrock, O. Swales.

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History of how "coolies" were introduced into Natal.

Death of Edwin Swales, V.C.

Congratulations on Hofmeyr's victory broadcast.

Thanks from the United Party for Hofmeyr's wartime leadership.

Congratulations on the HoundatedC.L. conferred by Oxford.

Fear that the government will be defeated at the 1948 election.

Congratulations on being made a privy councillor.

Congratulations on his speech on race relations.

Includes exchange of letters between Hofmeyr and Smuts on the formation of a coloured fighting brigade, copy of part of a letter from Sir A. Zimmern to L. Curtis on the part played by South Africans at the UNESCO conference, a note listing cabinet offices with names against each and a press cutting on Mrs Hofmeyr.

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1934 Statistics of voters registered 1923-1933 and of constituencies with more than 250 native voters.

1936 Comments on the Native Bills.

Includes Report and Proceedings of Joint Committee on Representation of Natives and Coloureds in parliament 1935 and of Select joint Committee on Native Laws 1937. Also protest against Bills by the Methodist Church.

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Reports of Hofmeyr's visit to Britain 1929, election 1929, gold standard 1932, Native Bill 1936, Mixed Marriages Bill 1937, inaugural speech as Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand 1939. Also articles on Hofmeyr by Arthur G. Barlow, J.P. Cope and G.A. Heard.

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Hofmeyr's stand on the Asiatic question, Aliens Bill 1937, liberalism, segregation, South Africa's participation in the war, post-war problems, Cape franchise and the entrenched clauses 1948, economic aspects of apartheid, policy of the United Party, honours bestowed on Hofmeyr and obituaries on him, Alan Paton's lecture on Hofmeyr 1949 and the death of Hofmeyr's mother 1959.

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Reviews of Hofmeyr's book South Africa 1931, politics, gold standard, government's policy towards Non-Europeans, negotiations for coalition of parties.

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State finance, taxation, provincial system 1932, gold premium 1933, anti-Semitism, article on C.J. Rhodes by Hofmeyr, race relations, resignation of Hofmeyr and Blackwell from United Party caucus 1939, South Africa and the war 1939, articles on Hofmeyr.

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Politics, Aliens Bill, Marketing Bill, delimitation proposals, South West Africa, oath to be taken by the dominions to George VI, mixed marriages, nationality question.

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On Hofmeyr's visit to India as one of the parliamentary delegation and the position of Indians in South Africa.

Includes photograph in The Hindu, 17 September 1936, of Mahatma Gandhi taken while practising as an attorney in South Africa.

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