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While going or coming he talked with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and with wise old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa. He had an audience with King Farouk (see p. 66), a chat with Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Premier, and the Shah of Persia. And the old (67) war horse could not be kept from the front. He flew west into the desert, changed into an armored car, got within four miles of the famous "Hill of Jesus," had to be argued out of going to the edge...
South Africa's fighting Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts smelled Axis trouble in Madagascar last week which only increased the stench of his Axis trouble at home. From the lazy island of Madagascar the Axis might not only control the western Indian Ocean, but also attack the minerally rich Union of South Africa, only 800 miles away. Last week Prime Minister Smuts heard that Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy had been followed by a reign of terror in Madagascar, in which hundreds of Free French sympathizers were arrested. Prime Minister Smuts thereupon broke relations with...
...colonies into an association of nations, the Dominions sought a maximum of independence, a minimum of responsibility to London and the Empire as a whole. Even in the midst of World War II the Dominions put autonomy first, a share in Empire affairs second. South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts raised not a whisper to aid Prime Minister Curtin; New Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive...
...London Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...
...thanks to the U. S.: "You are neutral and we are at war, but you have made the whole world understand that the moral and material might of a great neutral country can always be placed behind the belligerent, who fights for justice." Closer to realism, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa said: "Hitler has at last brought America into...