Word: malanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Premier Yoshida and Prime Minister Malan...
...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...