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Died. Stuart Cloete, 78, prolific South African writer of short stories, essays and more than 20 novels; of a heart attack; in Cape Town. Though he was born in Paris and educated in England, Cloete felt most at home in the land of his Boer ancestors. His first novel, The Turning Wheels, about pioneering Afrikaners, published in 1937, was a bestseller in Britain and the U.S. But it was banned for 37 years in South Africa, perhaps because it described interracial love affairs. Cloete was blunt in assessing the movement toward independence in black nations. "I had thought that...
Richard Harding Davis' pressure-cooked dispatches from Cuba, for example, were clearly calculated to inflame U.S. opinion and trigger the Spanish-American War that Davis' boss, William Randolph Hearst, wanted. During the Boer War, the 25-year-old correspondent of London's Morning Post, Winston Churchill, carried a Mauser pistol and played soldier. Twelve years later, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was part of Britain's censorship and propaganda machine...
...Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. 252 pages. Viking. $7.95. "Compassion's like masturbation. Doesn't do anybody else any harm and if it makes you feel any better ..." If Mehring were simply the small-Boer caricature suggested by such blather, The Conservationist would be a cheap shot indeed. Instead, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 51, makes him a human and nuanced advocate of the very thing her ten previous books opposed: the white-supremacist policy of apartheid...
...archetypal death merchant who gave the trade its bad name. Bribing, cheating, lying fluently in eight languages and playing upon nations' fears of their neighbors, Zaharoff-as chief salesman for Britain's Vickers company-amassed a huge fortune by selling weapons to both sides in the Boer War, Balkan conflicts and World...
...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...