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ZA HPRA A1919-1
Title
Lord Selborne to C.P. Crewe
Date(s)
- 2 January 1914 (Creation)
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letter typescriptExtent3 pages
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Estimates that it will be an anxious year for South Africa. Hertzog will not leave the South African Party, even though he disagrees with Botha. The real seriousness of the Indian question in South Africa is its effect in India itself.
Legitimate grievances of the Indians in South Africa should be removed. The question has not been settled before this, because Gandhi and Smuts attempt to out-manoeuvre each other. In Britain, the Government is in a panic over Ulster.