The late Arthur Keppel-Jones was born at Rondebosch, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1909. Because of the racial-political situation in his homeland, Dr. Keppel-Jones, a Rhodes Scholar in 1929, left his native South Africa to immigrate with his family to Canada in 1959. When he wrote the influential When Smuts Goes in 1947, Professor Keppel-Jones accurately predicted the political chaos that would engulf South Africa if the United South African Party, led by Jan Smuts, went down to defeat at the hands of the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party. When Smuts and his party were defeated, the racial discrimination policy known as apartheid quickly became law, drawing international condemnation, sanctions, and isolation. Dr. Keppel-Jones was a distinguished professor for many years at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Before he died, in 1996, he was an avid boatman and cruised northern Ontario lakes. In this view he is on Buck Lake north of Kingston, Ontario, circa 1963. [Photo, courtesy Michael Keppel-Jones] |