Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Yoshida and Prime Minister Malan...
Each day, Sir Winston opened the discussion by giving the Churchill view of this or that aspect of world affairs. Occasionally, some other P.M. would impress himself on the others-Malan, dour and superior; Canada's St. Laurent, dry and precise; Nehru, quick and likable but with an attachment to ideology that bored some of the battered politicos around him. But it was Churchill's conference throughout. He won Commonwealth backing on four big issues...
Churchill's conclusion was that the Commonwealth as a whole should press the U.S. to agree to Big Four talks-soon. He got informal agreement, though Daniel Malan for one could see no practical advantage to be gained. Nehru was emphatic that nothing-not even U.S. abstention-should prevent a get-together with the Russians...
...impolitic for the church to be mixed up in this." Said Du Manoir later: "He was awfully polite about it, but firm." The next advertised chairman. Philosophy Professor Errol Harris of W'itwatersrand University, quit when the university principal warned him that Witwatersrand dared not anger the Malan government, whose subsidies it needs. Jack Unterhalter, a Johannesburg lawyer, finally got the assignment...
...night last week, 1,200 defiant men & women packed into a small, smoky, underground hall beneath St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg. As cops of Malan's "Special Branch" looked on, white lawyers, teachers, clergymen and office workers boldly sat side by side with Africans and Indians. Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), a party founder, spoke with apostolic fervor: "For the first time we openly proclaim the things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced...