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...would be Britain's third khaki election since the turn of the century. Both of the others (during the Boer War and after World War I) gave convincing majorities for the government in power. With Churchill at their head, the Tories hoped that the July vote would be a pro-Tory deluge...
...line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped out almost to the last man. At Dunkirk they helped hold back the Nazis during the great evacuation. Most of Author Kersh's book...
Blimp first appears as a gallant and naive young officer named Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), back from the Boer War with a V.C., who takes it upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom...
King of the Arctic. As superintendent of the Eastern Arctic, David McKeand is virtual potentate of a 700,000-sq. mi. area -one-fifth of Canada's land mass-in which live only an estimated 6,150 people (6,000 of them Eskimos). Bank manager, veteran of the Boer War and World War I, holder of the Military Cross, McKeand became a civil servant...
...town for a Digby, N.S. weekly at 14, landed a job on the Ottawa Citizen in 1897. The following year he was assigned to cover Parliament. He has been there ever since. He arrived in time for the debate over the sending of Canadian troops to fight in the Boer War; now the question is whether Canadians shall be conscripted to fight overseas in World...