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...Warrior. Doyle's first experience with war was on the banks of the Nile, following a health trip to Egypt which involved him in various forms of desert adventure. The Boer War brought him to South Africa as an army surgeon, gave him a good taste of the unpleasanter forms of conflict, including work in a hospital improvised during an enteric epidemic. The town could be smelt rather than seen. The Great War found him roaming about the front-line trenches-French, Australian, Italian. After the Boer War and during the Great War, Doyle devoted a good deal...
...Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly...
...During the Boer War, John Hays Hammond Sr. was sentenced to death for his activities. Later, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Finally he was released on payment of a $125,000 fine. Free and healthy, he lived en to become Chairman of the U. S. Coal Commission and now enjoys a plutocratic...
General Hertzog, like General Smuts and the late General Botha, fought against Britain in the Boer War. Unlike them, however, he has not become entirely reconciled to British rule and was gravely criticized for his part in the rebellion of 1914. He is known for his "segregation-of-the-natives policy" (disenfranchisement of the natives)** and his "two stream policy"* (secession...
...with only his native genius as his heritage to become in time Prime Minister of Great Britain. And now the extraordinary tribute paid in 1906 and the years that followed to the courage and sincerity of the Little Englanders like Campbell-Bannerman and Lloyd-George, who had opposed the Boer War, has been paralleled or surpassed by the vindication of the same qualities in a man who opposed England's entrance into the World War, who, although not a Tolstoyan pacifist, would take no part in recruiting meetings, and who was constantly on th watch for an opportunity for peace...