Hugh Beadle (1905–1980) served as Rhodesia's Chief Justice from 1961 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..
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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)
_____________________________ 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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