Word: malans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Malan demanded special powers to suspend all laws when he should feel like it, the British-dominated United Party began to protest. "Do you want racial equality?" the Nationalists inquired. The United Party caucus last week decided to give Malan dictatorial powers...
Opposition to Daniel F. Malan's Nationalist government of the Union of South Africa is beginning to scatter like a dandelion gone to seed. The Boer-dominated Nationalist Party has found the stumper for its United Front critics. When voices are raised against a new law to oppress and subdue the African Negroes, the Nationalists simply ask: "Well, do you want equality...
...proposal was laid before Parliament by Malan's Minister of Justice, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) Charles R. Swart. Given to melodramatic gestures (he once loped into Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails under his arm to show his attitude toward Negroes), Swart needed no props this time to dramatize his proposal. He wanted authority to suspend most of South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part...
With national elections in the offing (April), Malan's opposition has found-it expedient to oppose gently, for most of South Africa's whites approve of keeping the Negro "in his place," though occasionally deploring some of Malan's methods...
...moderate Johannesburg Star also recoiled. "Both as a dangerous threat to public liberties, and as an irresponsible act on the Reichstag fire model," it editorialized, "the bill must be opposed by every means." There was no sign, however, that Malan's Nationalist majority in Parliament felt anything but. admiration for Justice Minister Swart's plan...