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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...
Colonel Deneys Reitz, onetime enemy of Britain during the Boer War, arrived in England last week as South Africa's new High Commissioner. It was a great joke in Britain when, full of friendship and good will, he breezed into a London hotel and told the waiter: "I am an easy man to please; just bring me some bacon and two eggs." Most Britons have not seen two eggs together for many months...
...night fire broke out in a Manhattan building, drove out the residents next door. The refugees: wealthy Jules Brula-tour & wife, glitteringly blonde ex-Star Hope Hampton. Their refuge: the neighboring home of veteran Humorist Arthur ("Bugs") Boer...
...years shrill-voiced Hertzog had been fighting Smuts and the British Empire. Hertzog carried a Bible and a bandoleer into the Boer War, bravely and cleverly fought the British-as did Smuts. But the Hertzog enmity continued. He voted against the peace at Vereeniging in 1902, devoted the succeeding years to law and his own brand of reform. In the mining camps, the veld farmhouses and the dorps (country towns), he harangued against horse racing, gambling, nightclubs, novels and the British. He advocated no votes, no beer, no property for Negroes. In the army he introduced horsewhipping and quick execution...