Jan Smuts

• 1942: The UN Declaration drawn up and Jan Smuts, played a key role but in South Africa, despite his global values, he continued segregation
• Liberty, equality, and democracy - Jan Smuts advocated these values but denied them to the black population of his country
• Jan Smuts values

  A) Voting

  B) 1936

  C) whites

  D) white

  E) less-desirable

  F) nicer

  G) pass

  H) personal

  I) any time

  
• Prime Minister of South Africa in 1919-24 and then again in 1939-48; he led a coalition government (combining multiple parties to have majority seats)
• he was committed to forms of racial segregation but not fully, this and his link to the UN boosted hope for civil rights
• By the 1940s, Smuts' power was waning due to his committal to white superiority and until 1948 there had been no exclusively Afrikaner-led governments