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THE selection of speeches by General Smuts which A has recently appeared under the title “Plans for a Better World”* makes its appearance at an opportune moment when, as recent debates in the House of Lords and House of Commons on Colonial policy demonstrate, many of the problems which General Smuts discusses, including the idea of trusteeship which he did so much to promote in the mandate system, are coming under close and critical review. The volume includes his presidential address to the British Association at its centenary meeting in London ; an address on science from the South African point of view ; and another address delivered in 1927 outlining his theory of holism. In this glimpse of General Smuts's views on science the volume does something to redress a conspicuous gap in Mrs. Millin's “Life”of General Smuts, and the picture it gives of the wide interests and sympathies of the author, his versatile and imaginative mind is both fair and balanced.
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COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE PROGRESS TO PARTNERSHIP. Nature 150, 161–164 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150161a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150161a0