ROYAL VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA
SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COUNTRY (Rec. 11.30 .p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13. One of South Africa’s difficulties was that the country was largely unknown te the outside world, and nothing had contributed more to letting the world know what South Africa was than the Royal visit, the Prime Minister of South Africa (General Jan Smuts) told his constituents in a speech at Volksrust yesterday, according to the Johannesburg correspondent of “The Times.” It was a despicable and ridiculous idea that the visit was an electioneering trick. The King had some years previously suggested the visit to express appreciation of South Africa’s services to the Commonwealth and the world, and he would have come earlier but for complications in the post-war situation.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 7
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