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...Opposition. Chief parties who have opposed the Smuts coalition are the Herenigde, New Order and Afrikaner. They do nothing better than bite at each other. Strongest of the three is Dr. Daniel François Malan's Herenigde Party. His candidates are antiwar, antiCommunist, anti-Negro. When Hitler and the Axis were riding high, Malanites cheered for Axis victory; now they say they only want the Union of South Africa to be neutral. But in this campaign Dr. Malan ranted: "It is a hundred times better that England and America should lose and not win the war, because their...
Svelte, charming Correspondent Eve Curie (Journey Among Warriors) was sworn in as a 30?-a-day private in the Corps des Volontaires Françaises (Fighting French WACs). She waited in Manhattan for transportation to her three-month basic training in England...
Allied secret diplomacy last week made its second major decision in French North Africa. The results were as politically disturbing, as morally disheartening to the United Nations cause as the first decision nine months ago. Then the U.S. had used turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan on the ground of expediency. Now the U.S. and Britain insisted that control over the French armed forces in North Africa must go to General Henri Honoré Giraud and not to General Charles de Gaulle, on the ground that it would be militarily dangerous to risk a sudden reform in the French...
...that De Gaulle and of the alternatives to him, a Frenchwoman in Vichy-france wrote last December. When she penned her letter to a friend in the U.S., turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan was still alive and in U.S. favor. Since his death, many things had changed for the better. But when her smuggled letter turned up in the U.S. last week, its words still rang...
...Laingsburg incident" made inflammable hay for anti-war politicians, who hope to defeat Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts's pro-Allied Government in a forthcoming general election. In Parliament, British-hating, pro-Nazi Dr. Daniel François Malan, who leads the opposition to Prime Minister Smuts, solemnly denounced the "Smuts policy" of teaching non-whites to use arms, charged the Prime Minister with allowing "Communist agitators" to stir up the colored population...