"I cared more that he had helped the foundation of the League of Nations, promoting freedom throughout the world, than the fact that he had repressed freedom at home."
— Jan Smuts

January 1, 1970

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Nelson Mandela, cited in Ronald Hyam, 2010, Understanding the British Empire, p. 347