Identifier: pillarsofempires00courrich (find matches)
Title: Pillars of empire, studies & impressions;
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Courtney, W. L. (William Leonard), 1850-1928 Courtney, Janet Elizabeth Hogarth, 1865-
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Imperialism Great Britain -- Biography Great Britain -- Politics and government 19th century
Publisher: London, Jarrolds
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ial majority—94 to 36—and at the closeof 1915 Botha entered upon his second South Africanpremiership. He signalized it by the release of De Wet,and he reaffirmed his devotion to British interests bypreparing the East African expedition, which Smutswas to command. iStrong, burly, kind-hearted, Botha exercises a mag-netic influence over the great majority of his fellow-countrymen. He looks like a well-to-do farmer, andhe lives, even at Groote Schuur, the simple, early-rising, healthy life of the man born in the country.Pubhc affairs come first with him ; but he is jovial,good-humoured, and given to hospitality. Bridge ishis favourite recreation, farming his favourite pursuit.From the natives he has learned to be a patient listener,slow in debate, letting other speakers state their caseand then answering with some wise, homely saw,expressed in the vernacular. Sparing in words, strongin deeds, such is Louis Botha, still the greatest soldierand statesman that South Africa has produced.
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