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South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts faced the same problem of draftee restrictions and prepared for a battle royal. To get his troops into the battles of North Africa, wise old Smuts called for volunteers who were willing to serve anywhere in Africa. Those who responded among the home-service draftees got red tabs on their shoulders. Those who did not were easily weeded out as disloyal...
...Pretoria farm Death came last week to Great Britain's most famed South African enemy, stern, pious General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities...
Winston Churchill recently referred to the "massive judgment" of Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa. Last week this massive judgment challenged the United Nations to win the peace as well as the war. Speaking to a special assembly of Britain's Parliament, South Africa's soldier, philosopher and elder statesman said in part...
...reluctance of United Nations leaders to get down to the subject of peace aims seemed about to be vigorously challenged. To London last week flew South Africa's Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, and the distinguished mind of the slim, bearded old soldier-philosopher was ranging over the world of the future. Before plunging into conferences with Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, he said...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...