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Prime Minister Daniel Malan waddled to a platform in Pretoria last week and delivered a two-hour campaign speech. Although he is rheumatic and turning 79 next month, the old man had plenty of stamina. A few days earlier a London paper had mistakenly reported him dying. Said Malan: "My opponents wish me dead. [The opposition] says I am too old to address a meeting standing on my feet. Well, here I am." Amid the frenzied cheers of his Boer supporters, he added: "I promise to retire before...
Next week in South Africa, 1,635,000 white men & women and 46,000 colored men (persons of mixed blood, whom Malan tried vainly to remove from the voting rolls) will choose between Malan's Nationalists, who won power from the late Jan Smuts in 1948, and the opposition United Party of Jacobus Strauss. "Every vote cast against the Nationalists," trumpets Malan in his perorations, "is a vote for Russians, Indians, the United Nations, the British Labor Party...
Sorokin, defending the non-violence movement, said in an interview, "Non-violent resistance is in my opinion the only form of resistance which any morally responsible person can use against the forces he must fight." He continued, "I not only condemn the policies of Malan South Africa and of all colonial powers--of Britain in Malaya and South Africa, of France in Indo-China and Morocco--but I also say that besides being stupid they are singular by hopeless. They are going against invincible trends of history. These countries, after a few centuries of slumber are reawakening, and although Malan...
...Malan's Nationalist Party has dismissed the movement as a Communist campaign. However, A. T. Steele, in a dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, expressed the feeling prevalent among most people who have studied the resistance movement. He said, "There is little doubt that some Communists have infiltrated the passive resistance movement . . . . In any case it is apparent that the great majority of those participating in the movement have no Communist connections...
...effect, the court was invoking a "separate but equal" doctrine something like that laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court 56 years ago. Prime Minister Malan called the ruling "a great shock." "The implications," wrote his party's Johannesburg Transvaler, "are frightening . . . Railways will have to use rulers to establish whether sitting and standing room for whites and coloreds is substantially the same...