Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only surprise was the announcement that the Prince of Wales would visit Argentina in 1925, after having visited South Africa. Even this was only half a surprise for it was known beforehand that the Prince was sometime to visit South America. British businessmen exulted over the visit which, said they, would surely act as a stimulus to trade. Mention of raising the British Legation at Buenos Aires to the rank of an Embassy was also made...
WHITE CARGO? This grim little drama of a man's decay among the black brothers of Africa has been running longer than almost anything else in town...
Some 55 years ago, a sickly English boy was shipped by his family out to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother there and build up his constitution. That was the beginning of a longish story that empire-building Britons now teach their children very early in life. The sickly young man dug diamonds, bags of them, at Kimberly. As he dug, his health returned. At 19, he was a 19th Century Croesus with his life before...
...trekked across Africa afoot, thinking what he would do with himself, when the expansive, fertile beauty of the unexplored country he was passing through gave him an answer. He would, after studying at Oxford University, strive to make the English race governors of air Africa, of all the world...
...wrote his name on Oxford's roster?Cecil John Rhodes?but never studied overhard. Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius, two boyhood friends, were about all he took back to Africa with him. Few men have as much; besides, the spirit of Cecil John Rhodes, essentially practical, essentially forthright and upright, needed little bolstering...