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...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...
...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
...Boers regard South Africa as their only home; unlike the British, they have nowhere else to go. Bruised into self-consciousness by British imperialism, which snuffed out their independence in the bloody Boer War (1899-1902), they are the backbone of Malan's Nationalist Party, which seeks to separate South Africa from the British Commonwealth...
...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...