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Young, ambitious Barrister Smuts began his political career as a follower of Cecil Rhodes. No disciple ever suffered more heartsickening disillusion. Impatient Cecil Rhodes stood unmasked as one of the 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...
Died. Frederick Jerome Lyon, 65, spectacular Connecticut-born soldier of fortune. Highlights of his early career: in '94 jailed in Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked...
Thirty-five years ago a sarcophagus weighing 3½ tons was found buried in the old chapel of St. Edmund at Thetford. The sarcophagus lay around until two weeks ago when a Mrs. Jameson, archeologist wife of a local doctor, convinced that it contained Sweyn's bones, agitated for recommitment. Rev. Ronald Cooling, Vicar of St. Mary's, Thetford was about to conduct the ceremony last week when Bishop Herbert of Norwich intervened. Experts, he decreed, must first study the bones...
...Jefferson (Raymond Edward Johnson), Hamilton's encouragement of a plutocracy and hatred for "that great beast, the people," spelled the ruin of every hope and paved the way for monarchy. To Hamilton (House Jameson), Jefferson's French-Revolutionary libertarianism furnished a basis for the gravest fears and paved the way for anarchy. Neither man was as extreme as the other thought him; but they signified, truly enough, the eternal antagonism between order and progress...
When U.S. and Canadian military authorities complained about prostitution, the British Government investigated, discovered a vicious increase in venereal diseases, decided the subject needed airing. The austere London Times quoted Sir Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health: "Because of an old tradition of hush-hush, the public does not know what it ought to." Health authorities, said he, are handicapped by "this misguided secrecy...