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NASSAU, The Bahamas \u2013 A non-partisan approach to honouring the country\u2019s first Bahamian-born Governor-General the late Sir Milo B. Butler, was evident as officials congratulated writer Patricia Patterson for writing about the life and times of the national hero.<\/p>\n
The book, a biography entitled: Sir Milo, \u201cA Call to Service\u201d, was launched Thursday, September 20,\u00a0 in a ceremony in Rawson Square, in front of the Bust of Sir Milo.<\/p>\n
Participating in the ceremony were His Excellency Sir Arthur Foulkes, Governor General; Perry Christie, Prime Minister; Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration; Loretta Butler-Turner, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Free National Movement and granddaughter; and Brent Symonette, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look back and remember him. We remember who he was, what he did in his lifetime and what he means to our Bahamas,\u201d Sir Arthur said.<\/p>\n
He said that the book was aptly named because that was what the life of Milo Boughton Butler was all about.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an invaluable contribution to the history of the making of our Commonwealth. It is an inspiring story of a man who was uncompromising in his just demands for his people, and a man who, throughout and to the end, was uncompromised in his integrity,\u201d Sir Arthur said.<\/p>\n
Sir Milo was born in Nassau on August 11, 1906 to the late George Raleigh and Frances Butler.<\/p>\n
His political career span the period 1936 to 1972, when he was honoured by Special Resolution of the House of Assembly and acclaimed a National Hero. On August 1, 1973, he was sworn in as the first Bahamian Governor-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
As a young man, Sir Milo learnt about the history of the black Africans and their descendants in the New World, the gross indignities they suffered, the never-ending tribulations they endured and the daunting challenges they confronted. The book also recalls 1938, when Sir Milo started his fight for blacks to work in banks downtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe refused to be a victim of an elaborate and diabolical system of brainwashing designed to inculcate feelings of inferiority among people of African descent,\u201d Sir Arthur said.<\/p>\n
Outside the House of Assembly and the political arena, Sir Milo is described as a mild-mannered, soft-spoken gentleman.<\/p>\n
Sir Arthur recalled that at the Constitutional Conference in London, when Sir Milo, who had already been designated to become the first Bahamian Governor-General, approached the four Opposition delegates at the end of the table and asked if \u201cwe\u201d were being treated properly.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister, acknowledging the book, said knowing the history gives people a sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing your history gives you the strength that you are heading in the right direction. We are paying a disservice to our country by not writing our story; there are going to be mixed-up versions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As the book launching reflected on the life of Sir Milo, he commended Sir Milo’s descendants for carrying on his legacy.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mitchell, who spoke on behalf of Loftus Roker, former PLP Cabinet Minister, focused on the period 1942 to 1973 \u2013 the Burma Road Riot to Independence.<\/p>\n
\u201cMilo Boughton Butler was to a large extent the star of that show,\u201d Mr. Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
By LINDSAY THOMPSON<\/em><\/span> Caption: The book, a biography entitled: Sir Milo \u201cA Call to Service\u201d, was launched Thursday, September 20, 2012 in a ceremony in Rawson Square, in front of the Bust of Sir Milo Butler. Pictured, talking are Perry Christie, Prime Minister and Loretta Butler-Turner, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Free National Movement and granddaughter, Sir Milo. (BIS Photo\/Derek Smith)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The book, a biography entitled: Sir Milo, \u201cA Call to Service\u201d, was launched Thursday, September 20, in a ceremony in Rawson Square, in front of the Bust of Sir Milo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54,44,432],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-books","tag-history","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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