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...seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
...original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed. At a time when one bemedaled British generalissimo after another was getting his cavalry pants shot oft by those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save the Queen round the pub piano...
There was not really all that much to shout about. In October 1899, by his own inept leadership, Robert Baden-Powell, commander of two regiments of a mobile "frontier force," succeeded in getting himself bottled up by Boer Commandant-General Piet Cronje. But if he was no military genius, Baden-Powell was an unquestioned success at public relations. During 217 days of siege, the dispatches from Mafeking were masterpieces of jocose understatement. Baden-Powell wrote some himself and censored those written by war correspondents. Either way, the adoring British public swallowed the stories avidly. They read of the jaunty commander...
...Idaho, she was the logical guest of honor, even if she doesn't exactly rough it in her 16th century palace in London, built by Cardinal Wolsey and touched up by the initials of Queen Elizabeth I carved into the woodwork in 1568. For at 78, Lady Baden-Powell, widow of scouting's founder, still serves as Chief Commissioner of the 6,000,000-member World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ("We've had them all-Queen Elizabeth, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, and that nice little Queen of Greece"), urges forward the cause...
Please call it Baden...