Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss? Egged on by such fanatic lieutenants, aging Pastor Malan sought to silence the opposition. In Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers shouted him down. Unable to make himself heard, Strauss appealed to the Speaker of the House, an ardent Malanite. The Speaker's only comment: "Resume your seat. I think you have said enough." Slumped on the front bench opposite, Prime Minister Malan chuckled in derision...
Next day in the Senate, white-haired Senator George Heaton Nicholls, one of the Union's founding fathers, bluntly said: "Malan threatens us with revolution by defying the rule of law. This is Naziism . . ." Nicholls' protest got nowhere. "The only question," replied a Nationalist opponent, "is who is ... the boss." By 22 votes to 14, the Senate made it plain that Malan...
Black Man's Wrath. In an angry, divided nation, mass meetings of protest demanded a "return to the rule of law." In Pretoria's Church Square an anti-Malan demonstration exploded into an ugly free-for-all when pro-Nationalist students bombarded supporters of the "Torch Commando" with stink bombs and rotten eggs...
More dangerous to Malan-and to every white man in South Africa was the threat of race war. In the teeming slums of Johannesburg, in crime-infested Durban, the slow wrath of the black man rose against apartheid (segregation). African leaders announced that they would "court arrest until the jails are full." A nationwide civil disobedience campaign by black, brown and half-whites was set for April 6, South Africa's national holiday. The organizers said they would stick to passive resistance, and would start no trouble. But in South Africa's present mood, they were inviting...
...Fear of Malan. What was behind the British government's strange conduct? Mainly it was the menacing face of South Africa's anti-black and anti-British Prime Minister Daniel Malan. John Foster, Tory Under Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, stoutly insisted that Dr. Malan had nothing to do with the government's decision. But Malan hopes to incorporate into South Africa the borderland protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland, and may use the disintegrating tribal system as a pretext to annex the territories forcibly. Said Laborite Wedgwood Benn: "The fact is that in Seretse and Ruth...