Jan Smuts (1870-1950; ODNB), South African lawyer, soldier and politician; member, imperial war cabinet in London, 1917-19; member of British delegation and the Paris peace conference, 1919; advocate of the League of Nations; prime minister, South Africa, 1919-24, 1939-48. See also Volume 65, 66, 79, 82, 85, 87.

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• 29 Dec 1919