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...noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party, but that if the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Brandwag to Hashomer | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...preserving freedom of speech and refusing demands that the opposition leaders be jailed for seditious utterance, wise old Prime Minister Smuts has encouraged van Rensburg and Malan to vilify each other rather than himself. Recently the Ossewa Brandwag has devoted almost more attention to the comedy of paunchy Dr. Malan trying to mount a horse than it has to the Smuts Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Brandwag to Hashomer | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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