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PRETORIA CLUB, PRETORIA. March 16. 1920. Dear Colonel Buchan. Very many thanks for the copy of your book you very kindly sent me, and still more thanks for the very kind appreciation of the small help I gave you in its compilation. I can assure you that the work I did for you was a very real pleasure to me. We have just been through the throes of an election which, I am sorry to say,

has resulted in not very satisfactory results, but we all hope that Smuts will rise to the occasion and pull this poor distressful country out of the sea of mud it appears to be getting into.

The tragedy of it all is that we have the greatest possibilities of probably any country in the world but professional politicians and the ignorance of a

certain proportion of the electors to whom republicanism appeals are together making a great effort to frustrate any progress. However I still have hope. Patrick Duncan was outed mainly owing to the Jewish community turning against him at the last moment on account of a threat by the Government to break the Jewish store keepers on

the Rand who have been collecting the skeckle by means of the most outrageous profiteering.

With kind regards

Believe me

Yours very sincerely

H. P. Mills