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\"Signed WW1/WW2 Peace Treaties\" Jan Smuts Signed 3X2 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Signed WW1 & WW2 Peace Treaties" Jan Smuts Hand Signed 3X2 Card  Jan Smuts Hand Signed 3X2 Card. This listing includes the hand written transmittal letter signed by Field Marshall Smut's wife Isie Krige Dated 1941.

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Field Marshal Jan Christiaan 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader,

and philosopher.[1] In addition to holding various cabinet posts,

he served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from

1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. Although Smuts had originally

advocated racial segregation and opposed the enfranchisement of black Africans,

his views changed and he backed the Fagan Commission's findings that complete segregation was

impossible. Smuts subsequently lost the 1948 election to hard-line nationalists

who institutionalised apartheid. He continued to work for reconciliation and

emphasised the British Commonwealth's positive role until his death in 1950. In the Second Boer War, Smuts led a Boer commando for the Transvaal. During

the First World War, he led

the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing German South-West Africa.

He then commanded the British Army in East Africa. From 1917 to

1919 he was also one of the members of the British Imperial War Cabinet, and

he was instrumental in the founding of what became the Royal Air Force (RAF). He was appointed as a field marshal in

the British Army in 1941. He was the only person to sign both of the peace

treaties ending the First and Second World wars. A statue to commemorate him was

erected in London's Parliament Square. Smuts was born on 24 May 1870, at the

family farm, Bovenplaats, near Malmesbury, in the Cape Colony. His parents, Jacobus Smuts and his wife

Catharina, were prosperous, traditional Afrikaner farmers, long established and highly respected. As the second son of

the family, rural custom dictated that Jan would remain working on the farm. In

this system, typically only the first son was supported for a full, formal

education. In 1882, when Jan was twelve, his elder brother died, and Jan was sent

to school in his place. Jan attended the school in nearby Riebeek West. He made excellent progress despite his late

start, and caught up with his contemporaries within four years. He was admitted

to Victoria College, Stellenbosch, in 1886, at the age of sixteen. At Stellenbosch, he

learned High Dutch, German, and Ancient Greek, and immersed himself in literature, the classics, and Bible studies. His deeply traditional upbringing and serious

outlook led to social isolation from his peers. He made outstanding academic

progress, graduating in 1891 with double first-class

honours in Literature and Science. During his last years at

Stellenbosch, Smuts began to cast off some of his shyness and reserve. At this

time he met Isie Krige, whom he later married. On graduation from

Victoria College, Smuts won the Ebden scholarship for overseas study. He

decided to attend the University of Cambridge in

the United Kingdom to read law at Christ's College. Smuts

found it difficult to settle at Cambridge. He felt homesick and isolated by his

age and different upbringing from the English undergraduates. Worries over

money also contributed to his unhappiness, as his scholarship was insufficient

to cover his university expenses. He confided these worries to Professor J. I.

Marais, a friend from Victoria College. In reply, Professor Marais enclosed a

cheque for a substantial sum, by way of loan, encouraging Smuts to let him know

if he ever found himself in need again. Thanks to Marais, Smuts's

financial standing was secure. He gradually began to enter more into the social

aspects of the university, although he retained a single-minded dedication to

his studies.

During

this time in Cambridge, Smuts studied a diverse number of subjects in addition

to law. He wrote a book, Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality; it

was not published until 1973, after his death.[9] But it can be seen that Smuts in this book had

already conceptualized his thinking for his later wide-ranging philosophy

of holism. Smuts graduated in 1894

with a double first.

Over the previous two years, he had received numerous academic prizes and

accolades, including the coveted George Long prize in Roman Law and

Jurisprudence.[11] One of his tutors, Professor Maitland, a

leading figure among English legal historians, described Smuts as the most

brilliant student he had ever met.[12] Lord Todd, the Master of

Christ's College, said in 1970 that "in 500 years of the College's

history, of all its members, past and present, three had been truly

outstanding: John Milton, Charles Darwin and Jan Smuts." In December 1894, Smuts

passed the examinations for the Inns of Court, entering the Middle Temple. His old Cambridge college, Christ's College,

offered him a fellowship in Law. Smuts turned his back on a potentially

distinguished legal future. By June 1895, he had returned to the Cape Colony,

determined to make his future there.

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