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Havenga had not always flouted the rules. A tough veteran of the Boer War, he became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
...himself was "amazed ... at my own immoderation." He had been a dandy at Oxford, with a taste for bowler hats of different colors and loud checked suits ("What, another pair of trarsers!" Trinity's president would cry). He was also something of a radical who had denounced the Boer...
Angus MacMillan is a jolly old man with a weather-lined face, a scraggly mustache, and a laugh that comes from his belly. He was born in Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides, and only left the island once-to join the territorials during the Boer War. As a child, he went to school to learn a bit of reading. After seven weeks of it, he came home again to be a crofter on a small farm...
...Boer War came, then the spot of bother of 1914-1918, then World War II. The Queen's domains were whittled away, but Campbell stirred neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good...
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger. "This man," wrote Yeats later, "I had deemed a drunken, vainglorious lout." And soon after the birth of their son, Maud and Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts...