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Butcher and Bolt. It was Winston Churchill who gave Britain's Commandos their name.- After Dunkirk, when these special units were first formed, Churchill remembered his Boer War days and the Boer Commandos: irregular, ill-trained, but well-equipped bands of 300 to 400 Boers, with less regard for the niceties of war than for ambushing and killing British soldiers...
...Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African informed him that...
...broadcast with the grace of a ballet master. A pleasant script takes him, two boon companions and a Hottentot boy on various African adventures that provide easy openings for such love songs as Here Am I, unique in its treatment of the adamantine mother theme, or such tender Boer campfire songs as Brandy, Leave Me Alone...
...Army announced that it was training a picked shock troop. Called Commandos (Boer for the personnel of military and semimilitary expeditions against natives), this mystery unit was being toughened by long marches on skimpy rations, being taught to read maps, get through barbed wire, navigate vessels, swim in full battle equipment, handle all sorts of weapons and explosives, even master the pressure points of jujitsu...
Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...