GENERAL SMUTS
ADDRESS TO WOMEN
JOHANNESBURG CONFERENCE
Many women will be interested in the address given by such a wellknown figure in the world as General Smuts, of South Africa. An international Conference of the National Council of Women was held at Johannesburg recently at the same time as the great exhibition, and the General talked to the women in his wise and kindly way for three-quarters of an hour.
Lady Nunburnholme, in giving some account of this to the N.C.W. organ, "Women in Council," says: "General Smuts, in his speech, ranged over the whole international situation. Perhaps two points of his speech remained most clearly with me. He said it was difficult to judge the real significance of things, for owing to newspapers, cinema, and radio, certain aspects of human activity were enlarged and magnified, while things more important, fundamentally, were kept in'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 14
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