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...BOER WAR by Thomas Pakenham; Random House; 718 pages...
...first American to die under British fire in the Boston Massacre; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, himself perhaps part Negro, mustered many colored sailors aboard his men-of-war in 1812; a battalion of 600 Negroes turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans by defeating British General Pakenham's seasoned Napoleonic veterans. Andrew Jackson paid them a glowing tribute: "To the Men of Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render...
...John Wolfenden declared that they should. So did many medical men and most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord Pakenham, "lest an act of legal toleration be mistaken for one of moral approval, [but] when we reflect on what torture is being suffered by many decent citizens-along with others less respectable, of course-I hope that we remember the injunction, 'Blessed are the merciful.' Let us take advantage...
Crime v. Sin. With the spiritual might of the Established Church behind him, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave Pakenham's view his unqualified support. Britain's Primate had earlier drawn a clear distinction between "crime" as a concern of the law-and "sin" as the concern of the Church. Law, he said, should still be invoked to protect and control those under 21 and "to protect the unwilling over that age," but the sin of homosexuality by consenting adults in private "should not come within the ambit...
...Lord Pakenham* in The Spectator...