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Age : 38
Localisation : Viet Nam
Date d'inscription : 15/02/2011
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| Jan Christiaan Smuts OM CH ED KC FRS PC (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. 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. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal [1] in the Second World War. For most of his public life, Smuts advocated racial segregation, and was opposed to the unilateral enfranchisement of native South Africans, fearing that it would lead to the loss of white power over the native people.[2] However, in 1948 the Smuts government issued the Fagan Report, which stated that complete racial segregation in South Africa was not practical and that restrictions on African migration into urban areas should be abolished. In this, the government was opposed by a majority of Afrikaners under the political leadership of the National Party who wished to deepen segregation and formalize it into a system of apartheid. This opposition contributed to his narrow loss in the 1948 general election. He led commandos in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal. During the First World War, he led the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing German South-West Africa and commanding the British Army in East Africa. From 1917 to 1919, he was also one of five members of the British War Cabinet, helping to create the Royal Air Force. He became a field marshal in the British Army in 1941, and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill. He was the only person to sign the peace treaties ending both the First and Second World Wars. Free Verizon iPhone 4tweedehands gigant caravans en kamperen | |
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Nombre de messages : 308
Age : 29
Localisation : Viet Nam
Date d'inscription : 07/02/2011
| | Sujet: Re: Jan Smuts Dim 20 Fév - 4:28 | |
| he was also one of five members of the British War Cabinet, helping to create the Royal Air Force. He became a field marshal in the British Army in 1941, and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill. He was the only person to sign the peace treaties ending both the First and Second World Wars. penis growthlight therapy | |
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