Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 80-year-old Daniel Malan resigned the Prime Ministry of South Africa last month, hope stirred that there might be a respite in the racial and political tensions which have long troubled that land. South Africa needed a period of peace to attract much-desired foreign capital, and Malan maneuvered to have Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, a moderate member of the dominant Nationalist Party, succeed him. Last week the Nationalist Party caucus frigidly rebuffed Malan, rejected Havenga, and unanimously elected as Prime Minister a man with the racist principles of Adolf Hitler and some of the Nazi leader...
...histrionics by speech-making in front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district of Waterberg, quickly established himself as an uncompromising Afrikaner Nationalist. "The Lion from the North," as he has come to be known, is apt to make intolerant old Daniel Malan seem a lamb by comparison...
...rouse a Transvaal audience like no other man. When he speaks, his arms are like whirling windmills, his fingers become jabbing pistons, and words fall pell-mell from his lips. In Parliament he has an authoritative air, snaps his fingers at backbenchers, invariably receives a bigger cheer than Malan. He has a bitter tongue, and is quick to take offense...
...TIME weighed the feelings of the "backward and unambitious" nine-tenths of South Africa's population, who never got the chance to vote for Malan...
...seems incomprehensible that TIME, Oct. 25 could refer to Daniel Malan as "the most hated man in [South] Africa, etc." I refute this flagrant untruth. He has . . . been elected to power repeatedly. After all, the people could have chosen an arrogant Englishman, but they didn...