You might find this interesting from the South Africa #10 bread.
“Zelensky's Congress Appearance Sparks Winston Churchill Comparisons” - https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-congress-appearance-sparks-winston-churchill-comparisons-1768924
Comparing Zelensky to Churchill? It reminds me more of Jan Smuts when he was speaking to the British parliament with Churchill in the background. Smuts had his military uniform on.
Zelensky’s US Congress appearance reminds me of “General [Jan] Smuts [South African Prime Minister] Addresses The Mother Of Parliaments In London (1942)”
https://youtu.be/8fcQ5gD_7UA
Field Marshal Smuts takes the microphone. He talks of the honour of being asked to address the house and the bravery and spirit of England. He refers to the war in China and the war in Russia. Then he says "We have now reached the fourth year of this war, and the defence phase has now ended. The stage is set for the last, the offensive phase". He talks of Hitler constituting the darkest page of modern history and calls for "a new fight to death for man's rights and liberties".
He asks what sort of world we envisage as our objective after the war and what sort of social and international order we are aiming at. He says certain points of great importance have already emerged, such as the acceptance of the name of 'The United Nations', a conception much in advance of the old 'League of Nations'. He finishes by says "and may Heaven's blessing rest on our work in war and in peace".
Cut-aways to members listening including shots of Clement Attlee and Anthony Eden. Churchill takes the microphone and tells of the labours to get this great statesman Field Marshal Smuts to this country. He then calls for appreciation for Smuts. The House rises and applauds and tries to sign 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow', but the key is set a little high so sounds a bit out of tune. They then give Smuts three cheers. FILM ID:1340.23
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Jan-Smuts:-Metaphysics-and-the-League-of-Nations-Kochanek/44b56b1e6475d1a3dc990bff45dc238dad082269
Jan Smuts was one of the key figures in the creation of the League of Nations, the first international organisation with truly global pretensions. However, Holism and Evolution, the most philosophical of his works, and one that illuminates his views on international organisation, has remained in a state of relative academic neglect.
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/jan-smuts-churchills-great-contemporary/
Smuts was a man whom Churchill regarded not only as an equal, but in many ways superior to himself.
The war began in 1899, and Churchill’s capture and escape from prison later that year are familiar. Less known is that Smuts, as State Attorney, interrogated the prisoner. Half a century later, at a dinner of The Other Club shortly after Smuts’s death, Churchill recalled: “I remember when we met. I was wet and draggle-tailed. He was examining me on the part I had played in the affair of the armoured train—a difficult moment.”
At one of their meetings during World War II, Smuts told Churchill something he did not previously know. Smuts at first opposed young Winston’s release. Later he considered Churchill (a presumed non-combatant) only technically guilty and favored his release. Meanwhile, the prisoner decided to release himself [Really? Did Jan Smuts not help him?].
Smuts also conceived the major portion of ideas subsequently incorporated into the constitution of the League of Nations.