by Lord Brand
The speaker had many contacts with both Lord Milner and Field-Marshal Smuts during his career in South Africa, beginning in 1902 when he joined Milner's staff in the High Commissioner's office in Johannesburg at the age of twenty-four. In 1908 when the various South African Governments had decided to call a convention for the purpose of uniting them all under one constitution, he was asked by Smuts to help him prepare a draft constitution for the Transvaai Government to present to the National Convention.
Lord Brand talks about the personality and the work of the two men, and suggests that Lord Milner's view of the problems of racial harmony is still relevant in South Africa today.