Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broom is Keeper of Vertebrate Paleontology & Anthropology in Pretoria's big Transvaal Museum. When the University of Pretoria (whose Boer-descended students are anti-Smuts and anti-British) set up a new medical faculty, it asked Broom to lecture on anatomy, waived the fact that he speaks no Afrikaans. He began-but then his lecturing in English was denounced by an Afrikaans-minded newspaper, the Johannesburg Transvaler. Broom thereupon addressed his medical students thus...
...revealed in an equal disdain for 20th-century socialism and 20th-century imperialism. In a world of massive empires and massive trusts, Chesterton wanted a revival of opportunity for the small shopkeeper and farmer. He called Britain's colonies deplorable, distracting "suburbs." One of his objections to the Boer War was Britain's destruction of a small nation of small farmers. Where Shaw wanted state socialism (which Chesterton and his friends denounced as "the Servile State"*), Chesterton wanted Distributism (the division of land into small holdings, and of chain stores into thousands of small shops). He hoped...
...Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
Admiral Cunningham first fought as a midshipman in the Boer War. In World War I he was at Gallipoli, and assisted in one of the great exploits of naval history, the bloody blocking of the Zeebrugge canal. Two other assignments in the Mediterranean, between World Wars I and II, taught him the capes and caprices of that...
...vote of 75-to-49 in the Assembly and 21-to-6 in the Senate, Smuts obtained Parliament's permission to have South African volunteers participate in the invasion of Europe. He smiled happily when Senator Sarel François Alberts, an Anglophobe veteran of the Boer War, announced that despite his age (70) he was ready to fight for Africa overseas if the Army would take him. Commented Smuts: "There speaks...