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...mean feat to maintain serenity among men of such dissimilar temperaments as India's Nehru and South Africa's Daniel Malan, but Sir Winston Churchill did it-largely by the device of doing most of the talking himself...
Each day, Sir Winston opened the discussion by giving the Churchill view of this or that aspect of world affairs. Occasionally, some other P.M. would impress himself on the others-Malan, dour and superior; Canada's St. Laurent, dry and precise; Nehru, quick and likable but with an attachment to ideology that bored some of the battered politicos around him. But it was Churchill's conference throughout. He won Commonwealth backing on four big issues...
Churchill's conclusion was that the Commonwealth as a whole should press the U.S. to agree to Big Four talks-soon. He got informal agreement, though Daniel Malan for one could see no practical advantage to be gained. Nehru was emphatic that nothing-not even U.S. abstention-should prevent a get-together with the Russians...
London newspapers duly took note of the song on the occasion of Malan's arrival for the coronation, but the Prime Minister, already bent over by the white man's burden, sagely paid it no mind. Back home in Johannesburg, however, his followers exploded. NEGRESS' SATIRICAL SONG ABOUT DR. MALAN! cried the Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler. PALACE APPROVES IT; PRESS SLANDER FOLLOWS...
...palace approval, there had been none; the Lord Chamberlain, as official censor, simply had found the revue fit for public view without considering its political content. As for South Africa's protests, the revue's producer said Don't Malign Malan would definitely stay on the program. Stops the show almost every night, he added...