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...after an automobile accident), lunched with George II of Greece. Churchill dined with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, conferred with Harold Macmillan, British Minister in North Africa, and held an off-the-record press conference. Through it all he was usually with his old crony and adviser, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa...
...London, South Africa's sage, 73-year-old Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts addressed himself to two related world problems: 1) Britain's position in the postwar world; and 2) Britain's Empire. As a member of the British community, he bespoke a rising unease about the new Europe. A digest of his speech...
Fresh from a great election victory (TIME, July 19), 73-year-old Jan Christiaan Smuts arrived in London last week, the mud of his beloved South Africa still on his boots. As he stepped out of his four-engined plane, Field Marshal and Prime Minister Smuts was invited to join the War Cabinet during his London stay. Said he breezily: "I'll be there...
...Nazi short-wave Zeesen station frenetically begged Afrikaners to repudiate the Smuts Government and the war. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts told his people the election was a referendum on South Africa's will to fight on with the United Nations to victory (TIME, July 12). The issue clear, South Africans last week stampeded to the polls...
...eight-week campaign, that was plenty. South Africans dubbed it the "blitz election": most of the electorate had not expected it until late summer; some had not believed there would be an election until after the war. As they voted this week, South Africans knew that Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts had set the election date early because victory in North Africa had come so soon. They also knew that canny Field Marshal Smuts would not have called the election until he was certain that his United Party and its coalition would crush anti-war opponents at the polls...