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...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...
Many a vengeful Boer looked on the outbreak of the World War as a good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found...
...throbbing brow during the funeral of George V (TIME, Feb. 3), buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania in Paris reviewed France's Garde Républicaine. Later in a more comfortable cap, he received from France's oldest living Marshal Franchet D'Espérey, France's highest military decoration, the yellow and green Médaille Militaire, awarded only to commanders of divisions -and to private soldiers who have won it under fire...
Public response to Author Thornton Wilder has been chequered. His first book (The Cabala) was too clever to be popular. His second (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic...
...prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps and other Eli pundits. After two years abroad Wilder taught for seven years at Lawrenceville, took an M. A. at nearby Princeton. His 1928 Pulitzer-prizewinning The Bridge of San Luis Rey lifted him out of the academic rut. but two years later he returned to it of his own accord, now lectures on English & literature for six months a year at the University of Chicago...