to 1977. Opening a law practice in 1931, he became a member of the
Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for Godfrey Huggins's ruling
United Party in 1939. He was Huggins's Parliamentary Private Secretary
(1940–46), then a Cabinet minister until 1950, when he resigned to
become a High Court judge. In 1961 he was knighted and appointed Chief
Justice; three years later he joined the British Privy Council. As
independence talks between Britain and Rhodesia stalled, Beadle sought a
compromise. After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
(UDI) in 1965 he brought together Harold Wilson and Ian Smith, the prime
ministers, for talks aboard HMS Tiger. Wilson afterwards castigated
Beadle for not persuading Smith to settle. Beadle's recognition of
Smith's post-UDI administration as legal in 1968 drew accusations from
the British Prime Minister and others that he had furtively supported
UDI all along, but his true motives remain the subject of speculation.
He stayed in office after Rhodesia declared itself a republic in 1970,
and remained a Privy Counsellor for the rest of his life..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tiger_(C20)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1778:
France and the United States signed the Treaty of Alliance and
the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, establishing military and commercial
ties respectively between the two nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce_(United_States%E2%80%93France)>
1833:
Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece>
1958:
The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football club and
some fans and journalists crashed while attempting to take off from
Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and
15 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster>
1987:
Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the
High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
2000:
Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of
Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80%932000)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
handwavy:
Of a demonstration, proof, or explanation, missing important details or
logical steps, perhaps instead appealing to common sense, tradition,
intuition, or examples.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handwavy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can
free our minds.
--Bob Marley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Marley>
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