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| Letter Reference | Smuts A1/202/100 |
| Archive | National Archives Repository, Pretoria |
| Epistolary Type | Telegram |
| Letter Date | 15 May 1917 |
| Address From | London |
| Address To | Savoy Hotel, The Strand, Westminster, London |
| Who To | Jan Smuts |
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| Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
| Legend |
The Project is grateful to the National Archives Repository, Pretoria, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner telegram, which is part of its Special Collections. The date of this telegram and the addresses it was sent to and from are provided by its official stamps.
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London
2 To General Smuts Savoy Hotel
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4 Your speech was fine
5 Olive Schreiner Betty Molteno
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2 To General Smuts Savoy Hotel
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4 Your speech was fine
5 Olive Schreiner Betty Molteno
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Notation
Smuts made a number of speches at the Savoy, with that on 15 May concerned with a Commonwealth of Nations; the more infamous one was 27 May 1917, when he used the term apartheid in a speech proposing separation and separate development on grounds of race; referring to the speech on 15 May as 'fine' implies faint praise.
Smuts made a number of speches at the Savoy, with that on 15 May concerned with a Commonwealth of Nations; the more infamous one was 27 May 1917, when he used the term apartheid in a speech proposing separation and separate development on grounds of race; referring to the speech on 15 May as 'fine' implies faint praise.