Word: proconsuls
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Prairie King. To this lapsed society Lamy brought a civilizer's temperament and a proconsul's firm hand. He and Machebeuf had been reared during the reaction against anticlericalism that followed the French Revolution. Both welcomed the metal authority accompanying the westward reach of empire. Though Lamy by no means condoned the military's campaign of extermination against the Apaches and Navajos, he viewed the tribesmen as murderous savages. When his own wagon train was attacked at an Arkansas River crossing in 1867, he and the caravan's military leader shared command in the kind...
...bishop was a formidable opponent, but he was an astonishingly gentle proconsul who could intervene at St. Vincent's Hospital to let a suffering Taos Indian return to his people, or journey to the bedside of a fever-stricken old woman to feed her slices of roasted apple. His one personal indulgence was gardening...
...replace him. At week's end a group of Tory backbenchers, the powerful 1922 Committee, gave him a rousing vote of nonsupport. Of the 21 attending a meeting of the committee, only two said they were for Heath. However, Heath's own preferred successor, former Northern Ireland Proconsul William Whitelaw, is disparaged by much of the party as an amiable lightweight. At the same time, former Party Chairman Edward du Cann, a successful financier and a leader of the party's right wing, is suspected by many as a schemer...
From Cunctator's day until this century, the art of postponement had been virtually a monopoly of the military ("Hurry up and wait"), diplomacy and the law. In former times, a British proconsul faced with a native uprising could comfortably ruminate about the situation with Singapore Sling in hand. Blessedly, he had no nattering Telex to order in machine guns and fresh troops. A U.S. general as late as World War II could agree with his enemy counterpart to take a sporting day off, loot the villagers' chickens and wine and go back to battle a day later...
This week the last American proconsul is leaving Saigon. It will be years before his record can be properly assessed. For much of his tour, he was undisputed commander of both U.S. military and diplomatic-political activities in Viet Nam. As such, he presumably will have to bear some of the blame for the policy decisions that turned Viet Nam into an international tragedy...