General Smuts, former South African Prime Minister, and leader of the South African Party, who is at present in London, has replied to a request from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for his views on Dr. Malan’s statement, in a letter to the editor in the course of which he writes that “owing to pressure on my time and also for other reasons, I cannot attend to the matter until I am back in South Africa”.
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