WARTIME PORTRAIT OF FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS SMUTS (Jan C., 1870-1950, South African Prime Minister, Field Marshal)

Fine large portrait photo, signed showing him half length in profile, wearing hisFfield Marshal's uniform a 8½" x 6½", no place, Bureau of Information stamp on the verso, 10th August outer margins of mount lightly scuffed in places, image quite unaffected

Smuts' importance to the Imperial war effort was emphasised by a quite audacious plan, proposed as early as 1940, to appoint Smuts as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should Churchill die or otherwise become incapacitated during the war. This idea was put forward by Sir John Colville, Churchill's private secretary, to Queen Mary and then to George VI, both of whom warmed to the idea

Item Date:  1943

Stock No:  39603      £375

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