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Monarch of All I Survey Monarch of all I survey http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.crp2b20015 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Monarch of all I survey Alternative title Bechuanaland Diaries 1928-1937 Author/Creator Rey, Sir Charles; Parsons, Neil (editor); Crowder, Michael (editor) Publisher Lillian Barber Press Inc. (New York) Date 1988 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Botswana, Ethiopia Coverage (temporal) 1929 - 1937 Source Northwestern University Libraries, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, 968.1102 R456Z Rights By kind permission of The Botswana Society. Hard copies of this book can be ordered from James Currey, Ltd. at the following address: 73 Botley Road, Oxford OX2 0BS, UK. James Currey can also be contacted at: http://www.jamescurrey.co.uk/. Description These diaries of Sir Charles Rey, Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, provide a candid insight into the times from the perspective of a colonial administrator. They were obtained by the Botswana Society after Rey's death in Cape Town in 1968. The editors excerpted a typed version of the 14 handwritten diaries, following the editorial principle of keeping "original observations of people and events that relate to Botswana, while discarding repetitious ... descriptions ... not based on direct observation by the writer." Format extent 326 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.crp2b20015 http://www.aluka.org .,'WiN ll't .,'WiN ll't V- i -ft. - l . I-It'" " 1! 44:141.ji m WE: & . MH It, LS Roll T1, iM A;t Dli'j .. gkl la pit ....... ... 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Commander of the Star of Ethiopia, Member of the Portuguese Academy of History & late Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate Author of Unconquered Abyssinia, In the Country of the Blue Nile, The Lady, or the Leopard, The Romance of the Portuguese in Africa, The Real Abyssinia, &c. Edited by Neil Parsons & Michael Crowder With Illustrations & Map GABORONE The Botswana Society NEW YORK Lilian Barber Press Inc. LONDON James Currey The Botswana Society P.O. Box 71, Gaborone, Botswana Lilian Barber Press Inc P.O. Box 232, New York NY 10163 James Currey Ltd 54b Thornhill Square, Islington, London NI 1BE © The Botswana Society 1988 First published in this edition 1988 ISBN 99912-60-00-5 (Botswana) ISBN 0-936508-22-1 (USA) ISBN 0-85255- 016-2 (UK) All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without the prior permission of the copyright holders. Main text and illustrations © The Botswana Society 1988 Editorial matter © Neil Parsons and Michael Crowder 1988 First published 1988 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Rey, Sir Charles Monarch of all I survey: Bechuanaland diaries, 1929-1937. 1. Botswana - History - To 1966 2. Botswana - Biography I. Title II. Parsons, Neil, 1944- III. Crowder, Michael, 1934- 968.1'102 DT791 ISBN 0-85255-016-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rey, Charles Fernand, Sir, 1877-1968. Monarch of all I survey. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Rey, Charles, Fernand, Sir, 1877-1968 - Diaries. 2. Colonial administrators - Botswana - Diaries. 3. Colonial administrators - Great Britain - Diaries. 4. Botswana - Politics and government - To 1966. I. Parsons, Neil. II. Crowder, Michael, 1934 III. Title. DT795.R49AS 1988 968.1'202'0924 87-12570 ISBN 0-936508 22-1 (Barber) Typeset by Colset Private Limited, Singapore & printed in Great Britain Contents Preface by Neil Parsons & Michael Crowder vii Prologue by Neil Parsons Xi illustrations between pages xxiv & 1 1929 1 1930 11 1931 54 1932 94 1933 114 1934 145 1935 180 1936 194 1937 223 Editorial Notes 237 Appendix: Notes on the Serowe Incident (1933) by C.F. Rey 264 Epilogue by Neil Parsons 269 Index 277 PREFACE So now I am His Honour Lt. Colonel C.F. Rey Monarch of all I survey What a joke! With this self-mocking verse, on All Fools' Day 1930, Charles Rey recorded in his diary his assumption of the title of Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Rey had been brought to Bechuanaland from London, as a new broom to sweep out the cobwebs of decades of administrative neglect. He was to stay for eight years, using his talents to tackle, and sometimes to provoke, crisis after crisis. Trusting few others with his confidences, besides his wife, Charles Rey poured out the impressions of his Bechuanaland years into fourteen hand-written diaries. The diaries were not intended for publication: he considered them too candid and unpolished. They let off steam with biting observations on people and unguarded comments on events, and are written in a relaxed colloquial style. Rey wrote as he is said to have spoken, 'in the warm tones of the born raconteur' The diaries of Charles Rey are therefore an invaluable record of the actions and thoughts of a colonial administrator in Africa during and immediately after the years of the Great Depression. Within Bechuanaland (Botswana), the diaries illuminate the continuous personality clash between Rey and his equally headstrong nemesis, the young Regent of the Bangwato, Tshekedi Khama - culminating in the events when the Royal Navy was brought to the Kalahari to crush a fictitious 'native rising' that Rey supposed was led by Tshekedi. Beyond the boundaries of Bechuanaland, the diaries highlight relations with the Dominions Office in London and between Great Britain and the Union of South Africa - the subtle and sometimes not so subtle relations between British imperialism and Afrikaner nationalism in the shadow of the coming World War. Charles Rey, knighted in 1938, died in Cape Town in 1968 at the age of ninety. He had lived a long and varied life. As a bureaucrat with flair, he had risen rapidly through the ranks of the Civil Service in Britain, which he had joined at the age of twenty-two. By 1918, at the age of forty-one, he was Director-General of National Labour Supply, working closely with Beveridge and Lloyd George. He had also travelled, as a commercial diplomat, to Russia and North America and probably Preface China. Then, in 1919, Rey accepted secondment to head the Abyssinian Corporation, a British body vying with the French and Italians for commercial and political influence in Ethiopia. There was then a hiatus within his career in the Ministry of Labour, which Rey made good by extensive travelling with his wife in Abyssinia and by establishing himself as an author of travel books on that country. Finally, Rey was snapped up by Leopold Amery, who combined the new office of Dominions Secretary with that of Colonial Secretary in the British government, to be sent out to Bechuanaland as the next Resident Commissioner - the position from which Rey retired at the age of sixty in 1937. These cold facts do scant justice to the vigour and spirit of Charles Rey. Rey was, more than most people, a bundle of contradictions. He had been a Tory intimately associated with developing the liberal ideals of social security in Britain. In Bechuanaland he was a social recluse, especially at weekends, and yet he was noted for his gregariousness. He was both an 'office-wallah' with an obsession for filing systems, and a 'bush-whacker' pushing his Armstrong Siddeley automobile across the uncharted wastes of Bechuanaland. He appears to have been intolerant of all women and all children, and yet he was obsessively devoted to his wife and bore the death of his two sons in stoic silence. His relations with Africans veered between racialistic paternalism and a person-to-person directness that was refreshingly unusual for its time.
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