Word: malan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Malan is not so foolish as he sounds. He knows he cannot win this year, and his strategy in this election has been to kill off the rival New Order and Afrikaner Parties, absorb all anti-British South Africans into the Herenigde Party. His long-run aim is victory in the next (1948) election. His platform then will consist of one big plank: to take South Africa out of the British Empire and establish it as an independent republic. And he will dearly hope that popular strong-man Smuts, 73, will have passed from the political scene...
...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...
...wave of patriotism following the recapture of Tobruk, Smuts cried that South Africans must now rescue 12,000 of their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde and Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg's antiwar, pro-Nazi Ossewa Brandwag. As an indication that he was not too greatly worried, Smuts announced that, having been invited many times by President Roosevelt, he might take time off from political affairs to visit...
...plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop's 72 and French Major René Fonck...