GENERAL SMUTS

Evening Star, Issue 20373, 3 January 1930, Page 9

GENERAL SMUTS

TOUR OF STATES AND CANADA TO ADDRESS VARIOUS BODIES (British Official Wireless.) frea* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 31 General Smuts, who arrived in New York yesterday for a three weeks’ visit to Canada and the United States, proceeded at once to Ottawa to meet tho Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King). He is due to return to New York on Saturday, where, as guest of the League of Nations Union, he will ad dress a number of meetings in connection with the tenth birthday ol the League. He will also address the Council of Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, tho Carnegie Endowment, and the International Peace Association. General Smuts will visit several other cities, including Washington, where he will meet President Hoover. TALK TO PRESS MEN. OTTAWA, January 2. General Smuts, who is on his first visit to Canada in the interests of the League of Nations, in a talk to newspapermen, said that tho basis of the League was that tho British Empire and Imperial Conferences, which had been held since the ’eighties, wore foundations upon which the League was built. He declared that in South Africa secession was a dead issue.