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...John Gilmour cut his way to glory and a D. S. O. through the Boer and World Wars. He has been Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and he believes that every Briton must do his duty by King and Country. That his police should be unable to stop jaywalking last week and unable the week before to create an atmosphere of order at Sir Oswald Mosley's monster Fascist mass meeting in Olympia (TIME, June 18). pained Sir John beyond expression. In the House of Commons he explained the traditional British theory that...
...family that gradually emerged from Author Scott's scrutiny of these nameless photographs, none at first sight was either attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with...
...affairs, hence, in Great Britain's affairs, hence in world affairs. He already enjoyed the distinction of having sold the first practical submarine ever used in naval operations o his native Greece, and the further distinction of having used this sale to frighten Turkey into buying TWO submarines. The Boer War added to his laurels; Boers shot Englishmen with Vickers guns and ammunition. The Russo-Japanese War provided him with an even wider field for his gifts; Vickers sold as much was material (and possibly more) to Russia as it did to Japan, England's supposed ally...
Died. Francis William Reitz, 89, onetime state Secretary of the South African Republic, author, in 1899, of an ultimatum to England which demanded its withdrawal from South African affairs and caused the Boer War; after long illness; in Capetown...
Less interest, less attention was granted the intervening business. Most members agreed that the election of pretty, plump Miss Emily Lewis, Smith '34, as President was "fixed," agreed on unanimous vote after the ballots had shown a 34-20 majority. No Boer, Miss Lewis thanked the League in the name of her South Africa, took the chair while the delegation orators occupied the rostrum. The gathered company was nonplussed when the first speaker, Yale's and France's Pierre Bori, delivered a stylistically brilliant address in his native tongue, propounding classic bromides about civilization, liberte, securite, and Gallic defense "contre...