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Lost in the political wilderness since the death of its inspirer, Jan Smuts, the opposition United Party fought back with hot charges that Malan threatens democracy and mocks the rule of law. "Vote now," was their slogan, "so that you may vote again." United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss, who was once Smuts's secretary, accused Malan's Nationalists of provoking racial strife, but labored hard to show that he could not be accused of undue sympathy for the Negro. "Of all races and colors," said he, "the black Africans have failed to contribute...
...should we get with the blacks?", their candidates can now paint vote-getting pictures of what might happen if apartheid is relaxed, if only on a "separate but equal" basis. The more liberal opposition United Party pays lip service to equality, but insists on separation. United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss hastily assured the voters that if elected April 15, his party too would uphold "traditional segregation...
...Swart's bill was too much. It brought the United Opposition leader, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, to his feet for a rare, effectual fighting speech. "Fear now stalks the land," he cried. "South Africa has become a crisis country . . . Today the inner clique of Nationalist leaders are in charge of a juggernaut . . . They ride it in arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having...
...Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
...wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's 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...