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A salute to friend and foe : my battles, sieges, and fortunes Author: Etienne Dupuch, Sir. Subjects Dupuch, Etienne, -- Sir. Bahamas -- Biography. More like this Similar Items. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.
Save Cancel. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Salute to friend and foe. Although a rabid anti-Catholic, young Etienne took up study with the priest.
He later became a Catholic and a papal knight. I was about to give up the struggle against what seemed to be insuperable odds and go abroad at the time I met Fr Chrysostom. They are alert to the liars, charlatans, dissemblers, turncoats and cowards in their midst because they are obliged to confront them, and write about them, every working day.
Sir Etienne was familiar with them all, regarding them with open contempt leavened by a measure of Christian understanding. He knew all about human frailties and showed a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. Working for a good cause Some campaigns were more easily won than others, and one in particular gained immediate and overwhelming public support. In a larger setting, say the US or Great Britain, he would have great fame and fortune.
Still, writing from this tiny colony, he attracted international attention and acclaim. Only the African nation of Rhodesia, with its huge beef industry, surpassed The Bahamas in its food donations to Great Britain. Besides large shipments of metals and other essential materials to the Ministry of Supply, the committee also operated a canning factory to help feed the children of England.
All the metals, food, sisal fibre, rubber, gold and other materials were gifts from the Bahamian people. A collection of gold watches and jewellery among old families in Nassau was sold in London for enough to endow a hospital bed in Malta.
His eldest child, Eileen Carron, today editor and publisher of The Tribune, recalled the example her father set for others during the tough war years, when food shortages and isolation from the world were a real and constant threat, and rationing was introduced.
As a public figure, the gasoline rationing did not apply to Sir Etienne, but he insisted on setting an example. He dropped them off at St Francis Academy, then located at the Hermitage on the Eastern Road, and continued on his way to his office. He could often be seen after dark pedalling home, a shopping bag filled with odds and ends for his wife in his front carrier basket.
His children remember early morning forages to the eastern beaches to collect seaweed to fertilize the land, among other household chores. A night of high drama in the political arena During this time when elected officials served without pay out of duty to their country, Sir Etienne and his brother Eugene were among them. Sir Etienne served in the House of Assembly for 24 years, from and again from He served another four years in the Legislative Council, from , and four years in the Senate, from A constitutional expert, Eugene served in the House from and as Minister of Welfare from The brothers were also members of a man delegation sent to London in to write a constitution for The Bahamas, changing the form of government from representative to responsible.
They were the third generation of Dupuchs to serve. His uncle Joseph was the first member of the Dupuch family to be elected to the House of Assembly. Joseph was the eldest son of Elias Dupuch of Bordeaux, France, who established the family in Nassau in Together, Sir Etienne and Eugene were a formidable force, both at The Tribune, where Eugene was assistant editor, and in politics.
The Hon Eugene Dupuch, QC , was a brilliant lawyer, a powerful writer, a talented musician and a statesman at the centre of all major human rights campaigns in The Bahamas during his lifetime. In one of the toughest and most dramatic battles of their lives, the brothers took up the fight to end racial discrimination in The Bahamas.
On the night of Jan 23, , Sir Etienne tabled a historic resolution in the House of Assembly calling for an end to racial discrimination in The Bahamas. The time has come when people all over the world have become conscious of the fact that human freedom is indivisible.
It is a quality of mind that cannot be broken up into parcels and one group handed one set of freedoms and another given another set. There can be only one freedom — and it must be the equal and indivisible freedom of all the people. His motion was carried and Speaker Asa H Pritchard appointed him to head the committee. The House was adjourned and the meeting ended in great confusion. Sir Asa never carried out his threat to have Sir Etienne arrested. The next day hotel managers — led by Lady Oakes, who took out a full-page ad in The Tribune saying the British Colonial Hotel was open to all — announced the end of racial discrimination in their establishments.
The resolution was passed one month later. He actually despised politics and had only served to help his country. He obviously enjoyed the excitement of the arena and valued the opportunity to change things. He was grateful for the support Sir Etienne had shown him during a general strike that had threatened to erupt into something far worse. He and Sir Etienne always worked closely together. Among these crucial issues were the secret ballot, abolition of plural voting, including the property and the company votes, the enfranchisement of women and the introduction of universal adult suffrage and distribution of parliamentary seats.
The chief beneficiary of these reforms was the PLP. The new PLP of Prime Minister Perry Christie, elected to power in a landslide victory in , has taken great pains to separate itself from the party of the past.
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