Word: broederbond
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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South Africa's Prime Minister had a tough fight on his hands. To a convention of his United Party in Bloemfontein, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts denounced the Broederbond (League of Brothers) as a "dangerous, cunning, Fascist organization." Smuts ordered South African civil servants and state schoolteachers to resign Broederbond membership at once. His stern alternative: resign their Government jobs...
Accountable "only to God" for its actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...
...first public statement in its history, the Broederbond struck back at its ancient enemy Smuts, announced that the Bond would fight Smuts in & out of Parliament. Said the Bond's statement, signed by two members, Christoffel Johannes van Rooy and Ivanhoe Makepeace Lombard: "The Broederbond was born of a deep conviction that the Afrikaner nation was planted here by God's hand. The Prime Minister is trying to stone us in his ignorance...