Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '88, associate professor of History, replied for the Democratic Party, which, he said, was the "middle force" resisting the "antediluvian reactionaries of the right and the Gideon's Army of soft-headed sentimentalists on the left...
...Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Then Candidate Wallace sounded his own call to arms: "We have assembled a Gideon's army,† small in number, powerful in conviction, ready for action. . . . We face the future unfettered by any principle but the general welfare. ... By God's grace, the people's peace will usher in the century of the common...
...other news of Wallace plans, see PRESS. † Gideon with an army of 300 freed Israel from the Midianites...