[14], When his term of office expired, Milner was replaced as High Commissioner by the more conciliatory Lord Selborne. By June 1895, he had returned to the Cape Colony, determined to make his future there. "[27] Meinertzhagen wrote these comments in October/November 1916, in the weeks after being relieved by Smuts due to symptoms of depression, and he was invalided back to England shortly thereafter. Although Botha was appointed prime minister of the new country, Smuts was given three key ministries: Interior, Mines, and Defence. Pg 119; Potomac Books, Washington. As Education Secretary, he had fights with the Dutch Reformed Church, of which he had once been a dedicated member, which demanded Calvinist teachings in schools. His first task was to suppress the Maritz Rebellion, which was accomplished by November 1914. They agreed to Smuts' draft South African constitution, which was duly ratified by the South African colonies. [19], For all Smuts' exploits as a general and a negotiator, nothing could mask the fact that the Afrikaners had been defeated and humiliated. This was the foundation of Allenby's successful offensive later in the year. Let us now, like men, admit that that end has come for us, come in a more bitter shape than we ever thought. Du Bois wrote in an article which would be incorporated into the pivotal Harlem Renaissance text The New Negro, Jan Smuts is today, in his world aspects, the greatest protagonist of the white race. [7], During this time in Cambridge, Smuts studied a diverse number of subjects in addition to law. [70] His government granted de facto recognition to Israel on 24 May 1948 and de jure recognition on 14 May 1949 (following the defeat of Smuts' United Party by the Reunited National Party in the 26 May 1948 General Election, 12 days after David Ben Gurion declared Jewish Statehood, the newly formed nation being given the name Israel). Both were in favour of reconciliation with Germany and limited reparations. There is, however, no evidence that Smuts ever supported the idea of equal political rights for blacks and whites. The freedom did not come easy, and there were numerous South African leaders that fought for democracy. Undeniably, Smuts was the second most powerful man in South Africa. [76] He later urged the formation of a new international organisation for peace: the UN. Sir Alfred Milner, head of the British delegation, took exception to his dominance, and conflict between the two led to the collapse of the conference, consigning South Africa to war. Smuts sees so clearly that Winston is irreplaceable, that he may make an effort to persuade him to be sensible. Of Africans he stated that: These children of nature have not the inner toughness and persistence of the European, not those social and moral incentives to progress which have built up European civilization in a comparatively short period. [48], In May 1945, he represented South Africa in San Francisco at the drafting of the United Nations Charter. 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