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...with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume I of Sarah Gertrude Millin's General Smuts is no campaign document blocked out with a whitewash brush but a sympathetic biography of a Big Boer...
...Paul quickly recognized young Smuts's ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible. Smuts saw that war was imminent, worked like a Dutchman to prevent it. Nevertheless it came. (According to Author Millin, neither side really wanted war which was the work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise...
...this time it was Smuts who had the overwhelming numbers and the enemy who raided, retreated, but were never quite caught. By 1917 Smuts had the country, if not the enemy, in his pocket. Lloyd George invited Ex-Boer Smuts to join Britain's War Cabinet. There Biographer Millin closes her first instalment...
...prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...
...four cameramen, an art director, an architect and Scenarist Reginald Berkeley, he spent six weeks in North and South Carolina last summer collecting local color. Out of 40,000 feet of film shot on this hunt for atmosphere less than 500 got into the finished work. Tobacco markets near Millin, S. C., cigaret factories at Winston-Salem...