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He did not bring with him any of his guards or attendants, not having the least suspicion of the trap we had laid. It was only when he came into the cabin that his suspicions were aroused, and it was then too late for him to retreat. I was sitting at the table when Smuts brought him in, and was presented to him as part owner of the furs.
By that name let him stand forth impaled upon the scorn of an age that has not lost the grace of reverence, who, mindless of majestic age, the dignity of letters, an influence unrivalled and benign, associations tender and most holy, upon these venerable and sacred books spits his shallow scepticism, spumes his spleenful sarcasm, and smuts them with his own sensuality.
Lord Kitchener: "Should you agree that your proposal is not in opposition to the annexation, we shall have accomplished something." General Smuts: "Is it your opinion that our proposal must be set aside?" Lord Kitchener: "Yes, surely. It is impossible for us to act on it." Lord Milner: "It is impossible for us to take your proposal into consideration.
Smuts has the unusual combination of statesmanship with a knowledge of every wrinkle in the political game. Take his experience at the Paris Peace Conference. No man was better qualified to voice the sentiment of the "small nation." Born of proud and liberty-loving people, an infant among the giants he was attuned to every aspiration of an hour that realized many a one-time forlorn national hope.
He is an all-round dependable person, with an adaptability to environment that is little short of amazing. Now let us turn to another and less conspicuous South African whose point of view, imperial, personal and patriotic, is the exact opposite of that of Smuts.
While the general idea of mandates issuing from the proposed international organization was presumably acceptable to the President from the first, his support was doubtless confirmed by the fact that it followed the groove which had been made in his mind by the Smuts phrase "the heir of the Empires."
Daisy, when she had become reconciled to the smuts and disagreeables, and the slights to which the Pink was exposed all day long in Penelope Mansion, began to enjoy life in a serene but unqualified manner. Each of the girls had her own particular tastes; and these they were by no means slow to express to one another.
Smuts invested it with fresh interest. So I went. The Smuts that I found at close range on his native heath, wearing the mantle of the departed Botha, carrying on a Government with a minority, and with the shadow of an internecine war brooding on the horizon, was the same serene, clear-thinking strategist who had raised his voice in the Allied Councils.
Premier Borden and General Smuts both came out strongly against the projects of imperial parliamentary federation which aggressive organizations in Britain and in some of the Dominions had been urging.
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