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2.

will see that your figure
of 40,000 is much too low.

Don't think me finicking in making this
comment, but the whole book is so good
that I particularly noticed this statement
because it rather tends to make out
the British task in the S.A. War to be easier
than it was.

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I'm sure you will be glad to know that the
Prince's tour in S.A. was a very great
success. If any comparisons were to be
made it might be said that the tour
was particularly successful in districts
& places which were largely Nationalist
in politics. This was very conspicuous
in the Free State & is of course extremely
satisfactory. It was a very good thing
that the present Govt. was in power as
had the S.A. Party still been in office there
can be no doubt that there would
have been a considerable tendency for
the Nationalists to stand aloof. The Prince's
personality would probably have overcome
that feeling eventually but still his