Word: boer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kipling was in South Africa when the Boer War began, and he stayed through it, enjoyed himself hugely. Very popular with the troops, he raised quarter of a million pounds for them from the royalties of some popular verses (The Absent-Minded Beggar). Very British about the Boers, he recalls that De Wet with 250 men, Smuts with 500, were handy fighters; "but, beyond that, got muddled." After the war he took a house for his family at Cape Town, next to Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which...
...Stevenson lived "under the austere reign" of Queen Victoria, "and while her reign was irksome to those who were immorally inclined, she did . . . place her moral stamp upon the English-speaking world" (TIME, Nov. 2). And she did place her moral stamp of approval on the cruel and unnecessary Boer...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, 65, Naval Aide to King Edward VIII, who rose from a cadet at 13 to first lieutenant in the Boer War, Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1931; in London. When Atlantic Fleet sailors rebelled at pay-cuts in 1931, he dashed to Invergordon, quelled mutiny...
...Industrial Revolution of George Ill's reign." To one who had lived through so many wars, talk of the problem of the younger generation seemed foolish. "Death had flown in flocks through Gregrannie. She knew its sounds and stinks. The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the World War, had taken their toll...
Many a vengeful Boer looked on the outbreak of the World War as a good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found...