Word: malans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan pressed a stubby finger to a small gold button one day last week and touched off a $112 million uranium industry. There had been hints that South Africa was in the atomic business, but this was the first firm news that the country was producing uranium on a scale that is expected to net $84 million a year...
Chief buyer of South African uranium oxide will be the U.S., with Britain, which put up some of the capital, making purchases on a smaller scale. Said Prime Minister Malan: "It must give satisfaction to our partners in America and Britain that this valuable source of power is in the safekeeping of South Africa...
...news of the Supreme Court's decision, anti-Malan stockbrokers in Johannesburg waltzed gleefully around the exchange floor, and many of South Africa's good white people rejoiced...
...government is expected to appeal the decision to the central Supreme Court -the same body which ruled against Malan in the first place. If that court rules against him again, the bullheaded old Prime Minister can call his parliamentary "High Court" into session to reverse the Supreme Court. The government may try to stop this vicious circle by holding a general election and asking the electorate to vote for "sovereignty of Parliament over the courts...
...week's end. Daniel Malan blamed Britain for part of his plight, saying: "If she continues her past policy in Africa, I predict that Britain will find her grave in Africa.'' Malan added: "To do what world opinion demands would mean suicide by white South Africa...