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...attended the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. They had much to accomplish in their week together. Next year the "British Ass" celebrates its centenary at London. Elaborate plans were made for the entertainment and enlightenment of the thousands who will attend. General Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman, was elected president for the centenary meeting, the first man from the Dominions to hold the office. Another important matter planned for the 1931 meeting was the proper celebration of Michael Faraday's discovery of the principle underlying the electric generator. As every scientist...
Just back from a visit "up above" which included London and New York former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts angered and astonished a majority of the Union of South Africa's House of Assembly (Lower House) when he told them without mincing that they cannot secede from the Empire without the consent of Great Britain and every other Dominion. If the Union of South Africa were competent to secede, he warned, then "Ireland would be competent to abolish the Kingship [of George V in Ireland] or to substitute another Royal House, and the result would tend inevitably...
...England was Englishman Robinson that his will contains a further, ingenious clause: if any hitch prevents German veterans from accepting his money, it is to go to Dutch veterans of the Boer War against England, and the cash in this event will be handled by General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, famed Boer-turned-Briton...
...quiet dinner chez Thomas William Lamont last week appropriately closed the brief U. S. visit of the most famed living native-born South African. No blackamoor is General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts. Indeed he roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...
...first-hand information on the land of their origin from, a man who knows their distant cousins, many New York Negroes went last week to hear a speech by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Boer leader and South African Premier. They heard him describe native Africans as dignified, noble, contented with their socialistic tribal life; heard him decry attempts to foist upon them a white civilization that would make them only "inferior Europeans." Suddenly the audience sat up straight and winced. It had heard General Smuts...