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...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
Nobody was more surprised than Malan himself. His flustered wife said that he was "too busy" for comment. Jan Smuts, obviously staggered, said: "These things happen. What is to be will...
...Malan's Nationalists, tainted with anti-Semitism and wartime pro-Naziism, had promised freedom to Britain-haters who had been imprisoned for sabotage during the war. Some Nationalists waged an underhanded campaign. One canvasser approached a white woman who was washing her baby girl, and said: "If Smuts wins, your baby will have to marry a black...
...Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...apparently different standards, the Allied records are lower. The top Allied ace, Russia's Major Alexander Pokryshkin (TIME, May 15), is credited with 53, he said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...