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He is no Savonarola, fanatic and intolerant. Like most honest men, he is torn with doubts. Only too easily he can see his opponents' point of view. He is a man moved by compassion, who desires only justice and love. It sounds inadequate. In politics he is often oversimple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Who Is the Boss? Egged on by such fanatic lieutenants, aging Pastor Malan sought to silence the opposition. In Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Inviting Trouble | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

The Skietcommando. Erasmus concentrated mostly on his own private Nationalist army, called the Skietcommando and modeled after Hitler's SA and SS troops. He ordered the "Her Majesty" insignia stripped from the caps of all South African naval men, required all military textbooks to be translated into Afrikaans. Propelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Loyal Renegades | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

This week, as Now Rouz rolled around again, Iranians were in full control and possession of their oil but did not know how to refine it, and no tankers called at Abadan. A commission of experts from the World Bank, disheartened by Mossadegh's fanatic unreasonableness, prepared to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Happy Now Rouz | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

He started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fusilier | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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