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If it is not to the mind of your Excellencies, if it is an unacceptable proposal, then let us have a definite answer to it." Lord Milner: "We wish to have an answer to the proposal made by us." General Smuts: "I do not see that any proposal has been made by the British Government. A certain basis only has been laid down, and therefore no formal answer is required."
What a delight that will be! and in a fortnight or at best three weeks Robert says we shall quietly go and get married, and Colonel Tom Carden can give me away after all. Oh, the joy of the dear, beautiful world, and this sweet, dirty, entrancing, fog-bound London! I love it all even the smuts! Thursday night.
Lord Kitchener: "I think it would be better if General de Wet were to wait until he has seen the whole document before he gives his opinion." It was then agreed that Judge Hertzog and General Smuts should act as a sub-committee, in order to draw up a complete draft with Lord Kitchener, who was to be assisted by Sir Richard Solomon. The meeting then adjourned.
Petitions to give them the complete suffrage, signed by 4,000 men and women, were ignored. Franchise Leagues are working in Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal, and their efforts are supported by General Botha, the premier; General Smuts, Minister of the Interior; Mr.
Instead of being segregated as are the followers of Sir Edward Carson, they are scattered throughout the country. At the General Election held early in 1920, general elections are held every five years, the results were surprising. The Nationalists returned a majority of four over the South African Party in Parliament. It left Smuts to carry on his Government with a minority.
Renny covered with smuts and giving freely his opinions about the railway, on which, for motives of Christian poverty, he had been rash enough to travel in one of the unroofed third class compartments. And, for the first time in his knowledge, Ishmael was aware that the Parson had not quite understood.
I doubt if in all political history you can uncover a series of events more paradoxical or perplexing or find a solution arrived at with greater skill and strategy. It was a revelation of Smuts with his ripe statesmanship put to the test, and not found wanting. At the election held four months later Smuts scored a brilliant triumph.
"Take this letter to General Smuts, please; it is from the German General von Lettow;" and handing it to one of them, she shook hands with the other and told him how she had been waiting for two years for him to come and release her from her prison.
Before we can go into what Smuts said during these interviews it is important to know briefly the whole approach to the crowded hour that made the fullest test of his resource and statesmanship. Clearly to understand it you must first know something about the Boer and his long stubborn struggle for independence which ended, for a time at least, in the battle and blood of the Boer War.
Kritzinger after fifteen weeks' activity in the Cape Colony had returned to Zastron a few days before Smuts' arrival. His incursion into the Colony in May occurred at an opportune moment, for the local rebels were being severely worried.
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