- Publisher: Haus
- Year: 2010
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 240pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New - Very Good
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781905791828
- Product code: 539557
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Makers of the Modern World: General Smuts
South Africa
Antony Lentin New Hardback Illustrated
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Jan Christian Smuts wrote of the Paris Conference, ‘Such a chance comes but once in a whole era of history – and we missed it’. Lentin surveys Smuts’ role in wartime and at the peace talks, describing him as ‘the most principled, level-headed and far-sighted’ of the delegates. Slightly off-mint
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Jan Christian Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas on the League and borrowed heavily from them, including the mandates scheme, whereby South Africa took responsibility for Namibia. Alarmed at the turn that peacemaking was taking, Smuts took the lead in urging moderation on reparations and Germany's frontiers with Poland and pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war. Declaring I return to South Africa a defeated man', Smuts encouraged Keynes to write The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and denounced the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. He became Prime Minister of South Africa and a leading Commonwealth statesman. He made important contributions to the British cause in the Second World War and was instrumental in the establishment of the United Nations.
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Jan Christian Smuts wrote of the Paris Conference, ‘Such a chance comes but once in a whole era of history – and we missed it’. Lentin surveys Smuts’ role in wartime and at the peace talks, describing him as ‘the most principled, level-headed and far-sighted’ of the delegates. <i>Slightly off-mint</i>
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