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...white-supremacy neighbors just over the border in South Africa, he was "just another Kaffir returning to his kraal." To British officialdom, according to solemn agreement, he was a private citizen of Bechuanaland, with all the rights thereof, permitted to return at last to his homeland. But to a hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: The Prodigal Chief | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...dusty Bechuanaland the greatest blessing of all is rain, and for months of drought the tribesmen had prophesied, "Seretse will bring rain." Suddenly, amid the cries of welcome last week, torrents of sweet rain fell on the parched thirstland of the returning chief and his thousands of bareheaded cheering subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: The Prodigal Chief | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...waterless wastes of Bechuanaland there is no happier word than pula, which means first "rain," and hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured a heartfelt "Pula" Soon afterward he canceled his plans for a December bar examination, put his Croydon cottage up for sale and made plans to go home. "From now on," he said, "I'm going to be a farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: Pula | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Thus, like a shower of rain after years of drought, the six-year exile of Seretse Khama, onetime chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: Pula | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...champion of the young chieftain's return. At Labor's prompting, Seretse and his uncle got together again and agreed to draw up documents by which each renounced all rights to the contested throne. With this accomplished, the Tory government agreed to let both return to Bechuanaland as private citizens, with the right to help rule the land of their ancestors as two members of the governing council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: Pula | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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