Word: malans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away. The Ford parked behind, and its driver, a burly, red-faced cop, ran to the Packard. He leaned inside and slowly, very slowly, helped out the most powerful man in Africa: Prime Minister Daniel François Malan. Half supported by his bodyguard, 78-year-old Daniel Malan mounted the steps and disappeared inside. A watching Negro spat. That afternoon, Malan (pronounced m' lawn) squatted on the front bench of the House of Assembly and heard the opposition call him a "Hitlerite," a charge which...
...nges, the "High Court" bill would make a joint parliamentary session (controlled by Nationalists) the supreme arbiter of whether the laws passed by Parliament are or are not constitutional. Malan called the bill a democratic measure to establish the supremacy of Parliament. But its real purpose was more sinister. Six weeks ago, South Africa's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional one of Malan's Jim Crow laws which disfranchised 50,000 half-caste voters. (It had been passed without the necessary two-thirds majority.) Instead of obeying the court, Malan decided to change the rules...
...John Malan, an instructor at Northeastern, said that Kefauver backed the administration on most policies, differing only by his advocacy of an "Atlantic Union" of democracies...
...Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to defend the court, if necessary by force. "You are breakers of the law," cried Opposition Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss. "You will lead the country to revolution and anarchy...
...with Strauss's new boldness strengthened the opposition. Quavery old John Christie, 69, longtime leader of South Africa's small but powerful Labor Party, left his bed in a nursing home to be present at the debate. He struggled to his feet, shaking a gnarled fist at Malan. "If it's the last thing I do," he rasped, "I'll fight the wicked proposals of this government...