PRIME MINISTER JAN C. SMUTS (SOUTH AFRICA) - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/31/1941 - HFSID 155222
Special Sale Price $300.00
Reg. $400.00
JAN C. SMUTS. ALS: "J.C. Smuts" as Prime Minister of
South Africa, 1p, 5x8. Prime Minister's Office, Pretoria, 1941 December
31. To Mr. Peterson, telling him that "my wife and I were much pleased to
receive the beautiful scarf which Mrs. Peterson had kindly woven for me."
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. The only man to sign
the peace treaties ending both World Wars, he was also instrumental in the
founding of both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Fine
condition.
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