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General Smuts: South Africa

 

General Smuts: South Africa
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath

RRP: Price: £12.99
Haus Price: £10.40
Friends of Haus: £9.75

 

Publication Date:
2010-01-20

ISBN:
9781905791828

Format:
Hardback

Territory:
World

Category:
History, Makers of the Modern World, New Titles

Pages:
208

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Listen to Professor Anthony Lentin on the Today Programme talk about Smut's legacy and his attempts to prevent the severe war reparations imposed on Germany after the Treaty of Versailles. 


Jan Christian Smuts
(1870-1950) 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.


Professor Antony Lentin , formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Barrister. He is author of Guilt at Versailles: Lloyd George and the Pre-History of Appeasement (1985), Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: from Versailles to Hitler 1919-1940 (2001), and The Last Political Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009).