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...Great White Queen would never allow Seretse Khama, their Oxford-educated chief, to return to his people (TIME, April 7). According to the Queen's ministers, Seretse, by marrying blonde London Typist Ruth Williams, had been derelict in his public duty as chief: his marriage, like Edward VIII's, had compromised his crown. Dutiful Commissioner Batho thought it unnecessary to mention that 1) neighboring South Africa covets Bechuanaland's black labor force, 2) threatens to use Seretse's marriage to a white woman as a pretext for annexing the protectorate, and that 3) Britain is getting...
...piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...
...Besides material for the Adventist Christian Publication Society, the company prints class reports, the Harvard Album, and the Red Book. Exam Schedules Exam Group Final Exam I June 6 II June 3 III June 9 IV June 5 V May 29 VI May 26 VII June 10 VIII June 4 IX June 10 X May 28 XI June 2 XII June 7 XIII May 31 XIV May 27 XV May 28 XVI June 4 XVII June 6 XVIII...
...directors reluctantly decided to sell some of the books. They asked Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction galleries for an appraisal. The expert who came to look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town meetings of Guilford, Conn, from...
...Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished both Seretse and Uncle Tshekedi from Bechuanaland, offered Seretse a pension of $3,080 a year. In five years, they might be allowed back if things cooled...