Word: brandwag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde and Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg's antiwar, pro-Nazi Ossewa Brandwag. As an indication that he was not too greatly worried, Smuts announced that, having been invited many times by President Roosevelt, he might take time off from political affairs to visit...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...
...preserving freedom of speech and refusing demands that the opposition leaders be jailed for seditious utterance, wise old Prime Minister Smuts has encouraged van Rensburg and Malan to vilify each other rather than himself. Recently the Ossewa Brandwag has devoted almost more attention to the comedy of paunchy Dr. Malan trying to mount a horse than it has to the Smuts Government...
Last week Jew-baiting Dr. Malan lent very little gravity to his cause when he auctioned off his Cape Town home, Brandwag (Sentinel), for which he had paid ?4,400. He accepted a bid of ?7,900 from a Jewish merchant named Solomon Schach. Solomon Schach promptly made the South African score-of-the-week by giving the house the Yiddish name of Hashomer (Sentinel...
Furthermore, any diversion of South African troops to Madagascar might be followed by increased pro-Nazi sabotage inside the Union itself. In recent months "dynamitards" of the fascist Ossewa Brandwag-"Ox Wagon Fireguard" (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941)-have blasted high-power transmission lines feeding the great Rand gold mines and the South African railways, have cut telephone & telegraph lines wholesale and even found support among the Union police. Now the Union of South Africa has a death penalty for such acts, but if Madagascar is taken by the Axis, the Union's violent pro-Nazi minority may cause...