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...diamond mining engineer, Painter Haucke was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1908. He came to the U.S. as a child, later studied psychology in New York University. He was preparing his doctor's thesis at Yale, on a teaching fellowship, when he decided to marry one of his former pupils and to abandon psychology for painting. Yale objected to both decisions. Result: Mr. and Mrs. 'Haucke rented a cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part...
...Britain at war. To Canada and Australia the war was serious business from the first, but to many dour Afrikaans-speaking Boers of the Rand and the Transvaal in the Union of South Africa it was just another cause for dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers moved into the wilderness to get away from the British, to the Boer War in 1899 which kept them sullen subjects of the British Crown...
...British account denied damage to any British ship except the destroyer Kimberley. This 1,690-ton vessel, said the Admiralty, pursued the convoy's attackers, which included two Italian destroyers. She chased the 1,058-ton Francesco Nullo to shore, shelling her so she had to be beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might...
...diamond bracelet lasts forever." Thus wrote Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} in the speakeasy 1920s. Since then the U. S. diamond market has faded away like hocked bracelets. Aiming to get it out of hock again, N. W. Ayer's advertising agency (which holds the account of Kimberley's De Beers diamond syndicate, biggest in the world) last year decided that the somewhat flawed diamond trade needed association with the higher things of life...
South Africa's Boers, however, are passionately anxious to maintain control over South West Africa. They would rather see the world's richest gold and diamond mines, the Rand and Kimberley, exploited by Britain than raped by Germany. The Boer leader who gets on best with Britain is white-bearded old Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier of the Boer and World Wars, national hero and ex-Prime Minister...