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Reconstructed Boer. Born a British subject in the old Cape Colony, Smuts was too busy with his father's fields and herds to learn to read until he was twelve. At 21, he won a scholarship to Cambridge University. When he returned to South Africa, he found growing strife between Briton and Boer. Good Boer Smuts renounced his British citizenship...
When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...
...colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...
Aged (80) Jan Christian Smuts, who had fought the British in the Boer War, who had taken South-West Africa from the Germans in World War I, and who favored a moderate racial policy, lay gravely ill last week at his farm near Pretoria. Rabid Nationalists kept him awake with taunting phone calls as the election returns from South-West Africa came in. In the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, citizens who realized that the Germans now had the balance of power in their Parliament asked each other, "How's your German...
Died. Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 80, bemedaled cavalryman who joined the British army in 1889, served with distinction in the Boer War and World War I, became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1920-22) and Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1930-35); in London...