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...South African veldt in a special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose late husband had acquired it during the campaign. The South African High Commissioner arranged for the purchase...
...must not be put off by the humbug about disarmament. The possibility of diabolical war must be faced, though I hope and trust it will peter out in general ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston Churchill, a jingoist since he first marched off to the Boer War at the age of 22, roared the loudest: "An entirely new situation has been created by rubbing the sore of the disarmament conference until it has become a cancer, and largely by the uprush of the Nazi movement." Mr. Churchill demanded four things: 1) denunciation of the London Naval Treaty...
...things turned his stomach. Once in Africa, stooping to drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot...
...year-old Mrs. Campbell with two children. When he came home six years later he found his wife the toast of London, friend of George Bernard Shaw, famed enough to add a line of her own to Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having her own way, once had a ton of tanbark dumped in Manhattan's 42nd Street to mute traffic noises during her performance...
...persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes's hands. Instead, the raid was made prematurely, and against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally discredited. Though he lived...