PRIME MINISTER JAN C. SMUTS (SOUTH AFRICA) - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/23/1929 - HFSID 177647
Price: $400.00
JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS. Autograph Letter signed: "JC Smuts",
1p, 4½x7. Oxford, England, 1929 October 23. To My dear Harry".
In full: "It will be great fun coming on Monday night, and I have that
night free luckily. I shall be at 65 Wyh [?] St. at 6.45". Jan
Christian Smuts (1870-1950) was an influential writer and effective military
commander in the Afrikaner resistance to British rule in South Africa,
the Boer War (1899-1902). Thereafter, he opposed extreme Afrikaner
nationalism and urged reconciliation. He was instrumental in the formation of
the Union of South Africa (1910), and served for two long periods as its Prime
Minister (1919-1924, 1939-1948). Smuts was influential beyond the boundaries
of South Africa. During World War I he successfully commanded British troops
against the Germans in East Africa. Then he joined the Imperial War Cabinet.
He was the only man to sign the peace treaties ending both World Wars,
the first one reluctantly because he foresaw that its harsh treatment of Germany
would lead to another war. He was also instrumental in the founding of both
the League of Nations and the United Nations. When he wrote this letter,
Smuts was on a tour of England and America. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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