Jan Smuts vs. Georges Clemenceau
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jan Smuts
1870 – 1950
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.
"The free creativeness of mind is possible because, the world ultimately exists, not of material stuff, but of patterns, of organization, the evolution of which …"
Georges Clemenceau
1841 – 1929
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia.
"finds herself at this time in a particularly difficult situation. ... It is the country which is nearest to Germany. America is distant; it has taken her a long…"
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