General Jan C. Smuts, war-time Premier of South Africa, member of the Allied Supreme Council and leader of the Union party, declared today in connection with the proposal of the South African Zionists to name a Palestinian colony Kfar Smuis that the “services of the small Jewish people to humanity were incomparably great and Western civilization still lives in the visions of the Hebrew prophets and seers.”
“That such a people should continue to remain in exile was a historic anomoly, which called for reparation,” General Smuts said. “A people who taught the supreme value of faith is not likely to be daunted by temporary setbacks. The Jewish national home will be rebuit and the Isaiahs and Spinozas will once more be the guiding lights in the he human path,” the General concluded.
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