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...Nationalists retain both their oppressive policies and their power, native rebellion seems the most likely and perhaps the only possible result. The European population of the Union is infinitesimal. Above all, it is split. The Torch Commando, a rapidly growing and already huge organization dedicated to the preservation of democratic and liberal government, includes both natives and Europeans. It numbers in its ranks six former justices of the Supreme Court, many former high army officers and government officials, and other influential and basically conservative citizens...
...voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized 175,000 World War II veterans in his Torch Commando, which is pledged to defend the constitution-if necessary, by force. Said he last week: "I make this last-minute appeal to Prime Minister Malan to turn away from this dangerous path before it is too late...
...pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash in four months...
Outside Parliament, too, opposition strength grew. From Major Louis Kane-Berman, national chairman of the opposition Torch Commando, came a stirring telegram: "Fight on your feet or live on your knees." Strauss's reply: "We'll fight like tigers." At Cape Town's City Hall, he told a cheering crowd that his United Party had formed a single "democratic front" with Torch Commando and the Labor Party. Then he issued an ultimatum: "If the government creates anarchy [by ignoring the court], the people will meet force with force...
...South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate ways: Alberts backed Malan; De la Rey is now vice president of the anti-Malan Torch Commando...