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...were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, 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...
...years." At Leeds she worked erratically but well, took a First and won a research scholarship at University College in London. There she shared a study with three young men, impoverished, enthusiastic students like herself; they worked, ate, argued apparently on terms of masculine equality. When, one day, Authoress Jameson had an article accepted by the New Age she was in the seventh heaven. "That paper was the Bible of our generation. We would rather go hungry than not buy it. We quoted it. argued with it, and formed ourselves on it. I suppose that Mr. A. R. Orage...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...
Authoress Jameson is not one who enjoys writing. Says she: "I would rather not write at all than write as I do, to live. . . . I am not what you call a born writer, and I should have been much happier as an engineer. . . . Each book now represents so many months of hard bitter effort and no moments of satisfaction." But she despises writers (especially popular ones) who have no social conscience or are deliberately sentimental: "Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions...
Married, Authoress Jameson is not raising her only son to be a soldier...