Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nash, a 1916 Rhodes Scholar and a veteran of British Army campaigns in India and East Africa in 1917-18, is vice-president of the United World Federalists and the author of several books...
Died. Major Jacob Daniel ("Japie") Smuts, 42, modest, gold-mining son of Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who once served as his father's aide-de-camp; of meningitis; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
...Afrikaner Broederbond, in turn, is run by an executive of twelve who call themselves the Twelve Apostles. One of the apostles, billiard-bald Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs, Nationalist Parliament member for Randfontein, said in his maiden speech in Parliament: "The political position in South Africa is not an ordinary fight between two parties, but between two basic outlooks on life so fundamentally divided that a compromise between them is virtually unthinkable...
...Malan government has already begun work on restricting immigration and tightening requirements for citizenship. Explained Dönges: "[This] aims at the protection of the State against a world outlook and an outlook on life foreign to that generally current in South Africa...
Nationalist Party extremists openly favor the establishment of an authoritarian Calvinist republic, separate from the British Commonwealth. At present, Malan prefers to soft-pedal this plank in his party's platform until he has firmly consolidated his power. Eric Louw, South Africa's representative to the British Commonwealth Conference (see above), has been less discreet. "[In the Republic]," Louw said not long ago, "only those would have a vote who had shown by word and action undivided loyalty to South Africa and to the Republic. This excludes all Jews, also the jingoes [English-speaking South Africans...