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Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on Petitions of J. B. M. Hertzog and J. L. Van Eyssen
It will be Obvious from a perusal Of the evidence that the Committee, as was to be expected, was faced with a violent con?ict Of testimony between General Hertzog and his witnesses on the one hand and Mr. Van Eyssen on the other.
The difficulty Of the task with which the Committee has been faced, however, has been considerably augmented by discrepancies in the evidence, and lapses in the memories Of witnesses who might have been expected to be in agree ment as to the main features Of outstanding incidents with regard to which they were giving testimony.
Generally there was great confusion with regard to times and dates and much variance on matters Of detail.
TO some extent this was to be expected under all the circumstances, and in View of the fact that no one supposed that the incidents and conversations which have assumed importance in this enquiry Would ever be the subject of investigation. The fact, too, that General Hertzog was not represented by counsel and that the evidence Of the witnesses who appeared on his behalf had not been sifted in consultation with counsel in the ordinary way, probably accounts for some Of the haziness Of recollection which was apparent throughout the proceedings.
But when all allowance has been made for these con siderations, the enquiry furnishes a very remarkable example Of the fallibility of human memory.
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