Word: parliament
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John Parker, Labor Member of Parliament and vice-chairman of the Fabian Society, will speak on "British Labor In Power" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Eliot Junior Common Room. The talk is under the sponsorship of the society For Industrial Democracy...
...positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister secret society controls a good two-thirds of the government members of Parliament...
...Afrikaner Broederbond, in turn, is run by an executive of twelve who call themselves the Twelve Apostles. One of the apostles, billiard-bald Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs, Nationalist Parliament member for Randfontein, said in his maiden speech in Parliament: "The political position in South Africa is not an ordinary fight between two parties, but between two basic outlooks on life so fundamentally divided that a compromise between them is virtually unthinkable...
Words & Actions. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians. Malan has announced that he proposes to eject from Parliament the representatives of the Negroes, and to deprive the "colored" (mixed-blood) voters of Cape Province of their direct franchise. The government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect...
...first move toward effective leadership, Drew must get himself elected to Parliament from a safe Ontario constituency. Then the Liberal Prime Minister-to-be, Louis St. Laurent, will face a new and vigorous leader of the loyal opposition. And a newly purposeful Tory machine will be driving with the throttle wide open toward the next election...