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...woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with...
Throughout the morning, the government radio network had been alerting the nation for a major announcement. Loudspeakers had been set up in offices, stores and restaurants, even around the bronze flagstaff of Salisbury's Cecil Square; and at 1:15 on the afternoon of Armistice Day, when Smith came on the air, all of Rhodesia was listening. "In the lives of most nations, there comes a moment when a stand has to be made for principles," said Smith, sniffling with a cold in the head. "We Rhodesians have rejected the philosophy of appeasement. I believe that...
Clean-up and reconstruction will cost $125.000, Cecil A. Roberts, Director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday. In addition, personal property damages total more than...
Preference for Land. Despite their good life, Rhodesia's whites still consider themselves frontiersmen in the mold of Cecil Rhodes, the free-swinging colossus who led Britain's last grasps of empire. Announcing that "I prefer land to niggers," he marched into the territory, developed it with his own money, policed it with his own troops and, on the basis of a royal charter granted his British South Africa Co., gave it a government traditionally free of direct London rule...
...Rhodesia's first native-born Prime Minister. His father came to the land from Scotland in 1898, settled down to make his fortune as a gold miner, cattle farmer and butcher in the town of Selukwe, 180 miles southwest of Salisbury. "My father rubbed shoulders with Cecil Rhodes," Smith says proudly. "He was one of the fairest men I have ever met, and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that we're entitled to our half of the country and the blacks are entitled to theirs...