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Lineage: Born June 28, 1920, third child, only daughter of Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill, Winston's younger brother. Father won a D.S.O. in the Boer War, died in 1947; mother, an Edwardian beauty, died in 1941. "True blue-blood," descended on her father's side from John Churchill, first Duke to Marlborough (1650-1722); on her mother's from the Earls of Abingdon (the present eighth earl is Clarissa's cousin...
...Boer women, Negroes and half-caste girls. Last spring the minister used his powers under the Nationalists' all-embracing Suppression of Communism Act to boot Solly out of his job in the Garment Workers' Union. Last week he hauled Sachs before a Johannesburg magistrate's court on charges of attending a meeting of his own trade union which, in the minister's opinion, "might have furthered the ends of Communism...
...could only keep him quiet by racing him around full tilt all through recesses. There is Churchill, the young subaltern in India, flashing a wicked polo style "like a man thrashing at a cobra with a riding crop." There is Churchill, the captured war correspondent, breaking out of a Boer prison camp with four chocolate bars, and trekking 300 miles to the British lines and the world's headlines. There is Churchill the Conservative and Churchill the Liberal, and Churchill the World War I battalion commander who bought up one French town's "entire seasonal production of peach...
Further evidence of British "oppression" was the abolition of slavery in 1934, (cf. U.S. in 1863) which was one of the initial causes of British-Boer hostility. Although the Boer War may have been an act of imperialism, the conquest of the Boers has been described as the most magnanimous in history. In addition, the United Party, which has tried to assist the natives, is not "British-dominated," but contains Boer elements, including its leader, Mr. Strauss. While we cannot but deplore the racism in South Africa, we must also realize the difficult situation in which, the white population finds...
...recent behavior of the Boer-dominated Nationalist government justifies Twain's contempt. It exemplifies a deep and virulent racism which would put the Confederacy to shame. Now a desire to deprive the British-dominated United Party of its support from the "coloreds" in the already overdue national election has driven Prime Minister Malan to extremes...