Word: commando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Man's Wrath. In an angry, divided nation, mass meetings of protest demanded a "return to the rule of law." In Pretoria's Church Square an anti-Malan demonstration exploded into an ugly free-for-all when pro-Nationalist students bombarded supporters of the "Torch Commando" with stink bombs and rotten eggs...
...reaction was sharp and strong. Opposition Leader J. G. Strauss, now the leader of Smuts's old United Party, called it "a great act of betrayal." So did a group of enraged South African war veterans, who formed the anti-Malan "Torch Commando" to protect the Constitution. Their leader was a cousin of Malan's and an R.A.F. wing commander in the Battle of Britain: Adolph ("Sailor") Malan. In tampering with the franchise, said the Opposition, Prime Minister Malan had violated the "Entrenched Clauses" in South Africa's Constitution. Torch backed four colored voters who took...
...reaction, South Africans have resigned in droves from the armed forces to join the ranks of Torch Commando, the anti-Malan political rally formed last year by a young South African air force ace, "Sailor" Malan, who is a distant cousin of the Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year...
...muddy Elizabeth River lay the flaming wreckage of the Miami Airline's Commando and the bodies of all 56 of her occupants, killed in the second worst crash in U.S. history...
Fighting for altitude, the Commando swung over Elizabeth (pop. 112,000), just south of the field. The pilot had feathered the right-hand propeller, but flames reddened the smoke from the engine nacelle. From the streets of Elizabeth hundreds watched his fight to get back to the airport. The fight was lost almost as they looked up. With an explosive crump the right wing tore off and the Commando plunged toward the ground...