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Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...
...Apropos of the frenly Raleigh spelynge letter] penned to Mrs. Gotch in 1898 (TIME, Nov. 15, Dec. 6). This is another little gem written [by Oxford's Sir Walter] at the time of the Boer...
...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...