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...scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Brandwag to Hashomer | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Likely Germans ambitious to work as colonial administrators after Adolf Hitler secures overseas territory for the Reich have been studying for some years in the first two German colonial schools at Rensburg and Witzhausen. Last week another such school was opened at Ladeburg by Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, who is "the Deputy of the Führer for Colonial Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Colonial Affairs | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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