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Author Boulter, Roger

Title A biography of F.C. Erasmus, South African defence minister, 1948-1959 / Roger Stephen Boulter ; with a foreword by David Dickson
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 382 pages)
Summary This book reconsiders the life of former South African Defense Minister, F.C. Erasmus. Although an architect of the Nationalists' post-war election victory, he was not considered a minster of the first rank. Erasmus initiated a process of ridding the defense force of officers who he believed were associated with the government of Jan Smuts. Erasmus felt that the armed services had been too British in its ethos and appearance and wanted to create a force that was uniquely South African. However, without an immanent military threat, Erasmus never received a substantial budgetary allocation to mo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Erasmus, F. C. (Francois Christiaan)
SUBJECT Erasmus, F. C. (Francois Christiaan) fast
Subject South Africa. Ministry of Defence -- Biography
SUBJECT South Africa. Ministry of Defence fast
Subject Cabinet officers -- South Africa -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Cabinet officers
Military policy
Politics and government
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1961. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125491
South Africa -- Military policy
Subject South Africa
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773420885
0773420886