Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader, Mr. Strauss. While we cannot but deplore the racism in South Africa, we must also realize the difficult situation in which, the white population finds itself; this might be compared, in some ways, to American colonial times, when Indians outnumbered settlers. South Africa may have produced its Malans, but it has also produced men like Jan Christian Smuts. Americans should realize that South Africa cannot be judged by American standards, and a more sympathetic attitude to the country as a whole and to those elements which are opposing Malan's extra-constitutional measures would be desirable. William Herridge...
...Boer-dominated Nationalist government justifies Twain's contempt. It exemplifies a deep and virulent racism which would put the Confederacy to shame. Now a desire to deprive the British-dominated United Party of its support from the "coloreds" in the already overdue national election has driven Prime Minister Malan to extremes...
What are you doing about Malan's naked racialism in South Africa, which to us is much more terrible than Hitler...
...advance of Boer nationalism. British South Africans, for so long politically apathetic, had at last bestirred themselves. A moral awakening was taking place in South Africa. There were signs of new alliances to meet the common threat to constitutional liberties. Even many law-abiding Boers were distressed by Premier Malan's extra-legal methods, and some of his own party thought he was going too far. They found ominous the sights & sounds of Boer chauvinism: the way Malanite musclemen break up opposition meetings with eggs, tomatoes and stones; the budding of a private Nationalist army (Skietkommando) along the lines...
Fervent Daniel Malan's divided nation has become a tense and uneasy place. His attempt to put his regime above the courts seemed certain of passage in Parliament, and is plainly a big step to committing South Africa to a one-party totalitarian state. It is no better for being done in God's name...