Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come as something of a surprise to the critics of South Africa's government that it permitted the cover story on Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan (TIME, May 5) to be widely distributed and reprinted in South Africa. Long excerpts were quoted in the pro-Malan Afrikaans press...
...arrived in New York for his first visit to the U.S. and his first trip out of Africa in 15 years. Campbell reports that, even as he prepared for the six-week trip, rumors began to circulate that he was fleeing the country because of the story on Malan...
...nonsegregation policy, however, incurred the bitter enmity of Dr. Daniel Malan's race-purity government. Last week the government branded him a Communist and ordered him dismissed from his trade-union job. The year-old Suppression of Communism Act empowers the government to remove from "public office" anyone the Minister of Justice decides is, or ever has been, a Communist...
...back a Communist, but he was publicly expelled by the party in 1931. The creed he now proclaims is "South Africa needs not Lenin, but Lincoln." Only last year, South Africa's supreme court ruled that he is not a Communist. To many, including influential conservative newspapers, the Malan government seemed less concerned with Sachs's being a Communist than with getting control of his and other trade unions, then forcing them to follow the Nationalist Party's apartheid (segregation) line...
...Trades and Labor Council, with a total membership of 90,000, declared: "This is the first crack of the Nazi whip." In Cape Town, Opposition Leader Jacob Strauss, as stout an anti-Communist as Dr. Malan, promised that his United Party would stand by the trade unions...