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...plotters of the famed Jameson Raid (1895), which would have pulled sturdy Oom (uncle) Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic into the British sphere. Jan Smuts tasted bitter ashes. None of his original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed against naked imperialism, shed his British citizenship, trekked north, became a burgher and a leader of the Transvaal Republic...
Angelic Bottom. When the War of the Spanish Succession (England, Austria, Holland and Prussia v. France and Spain) broke out, Parma's Duke sided with the French. Abbe Alberoni, 33, was among those sent to pay little Parma's respects to French Marshal Vendome. The haughty Marshal received the Parmesan statesmen by rising from his privy seat and turning his bare butt to them. Cried Abbe Alberoni: "Checulo d'angelo!" ("What an angelic bottom!") Marshal Vendome was enchanted, soon signed Alberoni on as his private secretary. The shrewd secretary bought Vendome's vain generals new wigs...
...first combat flight, last July 28, she led a sweep over Abbeville; the 100th mission was to bomb an airfield at Evreux, near Paris. In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...
...these, 40 divisions appeared to be in France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark; twelve in Norway. Fifteen more, including five to seven armored divisions, constitute Rommel's force, which will use the rear-area transportation system to get into the fight where the going is hottest...
General Friedrich Christiansen, 64, is chief for Holland. A World War I flying ace and no Junker, chunky, weather-beaten Christiansen is also a mariner, went back to sea after the last war and captained the liner Rio Bravo on the Hamburg-Mexico run. Later, returning to the air, he piloted Germany's Do-X flying boat, ultimately stepped in behind Göring to build up the Luftwaffe...