Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Gandhi suffered. Prime Minister Daniel Malan, whose heart has a high melting point, pushed on with plans to abridge still further the liberties of South Africa's nonwhites. Malan's next great objective was to exclude Cape Province's 49,000 voters of mixed blood from participation in "white"' elections and to limit their political representation to four white M.P.s. Two of Malan's schemes to achieve this had already been declared unconstitutional by South Africa's appeal court, so last week the old (79) preacher-politician called a joint session...
Though his Nationalist supporters howled with rage, Malan blandly turned to another tack. Next day Parliament was confronted with a bill which would make a Malan-packed subdivision of the appeal court the final authority on constitutional matters. If the new bill passes, single-minded Daniel Malan will be free to proceed against "colored" voters, secure in the knowledge that the reorganized appeal court will approve whatever action he cares to take...
...coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers evidently made an impression on the crusty old doctor of divinity who attended as South Africa's representative. Back in Cape Town last week, 79-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan, D.D., surprised the House of Parliament with this flat statement: "The Commonwealth gives us the greatest freedom we could wish for . . ." He even cited India's example to prove that South Africa could become a republic (as his Boer Nationalists insist) without leaving the Commonwealth...
Never before had Daniel Malan sounded so much like his ancient enemy, the late, great Jan Christian Smuts. But the resemblance was purely temporary. When the opposition United Party sought a pledge of continued Commonwealth "membership," Malan said no. Instead, he would assent only to South African "cooperation" and under these conditions...
Next day the old Prime Minister at tended a government luncheon honoring his Australian opposite number: Prime Minister Sir Gordon Menzies, homeward bound from London. In a thinly veiled warning to Commonwealth colleagues India and Pakistan, Malan told the world that South Africa "stands for the security of white civilization and Australia stands for a white Australia. The day may come when ... the same powers in the Indian Ocean that suggested that the white man must quit Africa might be knocking on the door of Australia . . . When Australia needs a friend, we shall be there...