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Word: bechuanaland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because soot-black young Chief Tshekedi of the Bamangwato tribe ordered a white man flogged, he was banished from his country by Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans. Acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: White Justice | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

There was no question of lewd Phineas' guilt. He had admitted everything. But if Britons should allow natives to try them, there would soon be no Britons in Africa. Admiral Evans, now acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland, and the Resident Commissioner Col. Charles Fernand Rey, went up with their Marines to try Chief Tshekedi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Admiral Under a Figtree | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number of healthy adventure stories for boys. What took this most gallant officer to the blazing heat of Bechuanaland was the disgraceful conduct of a lecherous Scotsman known as Phineas Mackintosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Admiral Under a Figtree | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Bechuanaland is officially native territory. Lewd Phineas Mackintosh took advantage of that fact to marry a blackamoor (a crime in the Union of South Africa), and to seduce numerous other Bamangwato tribeswomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Admiral Under a Figtree | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Admiral Under a Figtree | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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