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Exactly the kind of African Colonist Rhodes wanted was Major Geoffrey Selwyn who went to Kenya in 1920 with £1,700, an old wound and his indomitable Wife Helen Eugenie. He bought a farm in northwest Kenya near Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites...
...years, considered opening his door to women, gave the whole staff a mild case of jitters. Bleeck's affords something of the oldtime barber-shop refuge from feminism, and there nearly every day the staff gathers-Stanley Walker, Grafton ("Wilkie") Wilcox, the able managing editor, wise Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer, and "Oggie" Reid himself...
...action from the League on the issue of whether or not to send an armed force to supervise the Saar plebiscite next January, as urgently demanded by the League's own Commissioner of the Saar, Mr. Geoffrey Knox (TIME...
Coblenz is some 60 miles from the smoke-blackened, ore-rich Saar Valley ruled by President Geoffrey Knox of the League of Nations Governing Commission (TIME, Aug. 27). Next January Saar-lander will vote in a three-way plebiscite: to 1) rejoin Germany, 2) remain under League rule or 3) join France. As the 150,000 Saar Bummlers rode off to Coblenz last week 60,000 other Saarlander mass-met at Sulzbach in the Saar. "Don't vote to rejoin Germany " they were told by Socialist, Catholic and Communist orators. "Hitler means war, misery and terror...
...shocker came from the League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany...