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...Party, called it "a great act of betrayal." So did a group of enraged South African war veterans, who formed the anti-Malan "Torch Commando" to protect the Constitution. Their leader was a cousin of Malan's and an R.A.F. wing commander in the Battle of Britain: Adolph ("Sailor") Malan. In tampering with the franchise, said the Opposition, Prime Minister Malan had violated the "Entrenched Clauses" in South Africa's Constitution. Torch backed four colored voters who took the case to South Africa's Supreme Court...
Captain Jay (Sailor) Byrne and Bill Spence are holdovers from last year's defense. Munro plans to fit Paul Jones, top sophomore prospect, with the two veterans, keeping Ned Maroni and Turk Broder in reserve...
...reaction, South Africans have resigned in droves from the armed forces to join the ranks of Torch Commando, the anti-Malan political rally formed last year by a young South African air force ace, "Sailor" Malan, who is a distant cousin of the Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year...
...complaints of disappointed men," but privately he and Malan's Nationalist regime were worried. They issued edicts barring soldiers from joining Torch, and sent spies into barracks to root out secret Torch members, only to discover that many of the police spies themselves are clandestinely allied with Sailor Malan's movement. In addition to rolling up a membership of 200,000 South Africans who want a drastic-but democratic-change in government. Torch is enlisting the country's best and toughest soldiers...
Once again Harvard's best chance for a first place rests with diving champion Pete Dillingham, who has swamped the best in the East this year, with one exception. Dillingham's lone loss was to Navy's Jerry Anderson, and fellow sailor Owen Davies, who was ill the weekend of the Harvard-Navy meet, has defeated Anderson several times since. There was some discussion at the time, however, about the Annapolis scoring, and Dillingham will have at least an even chance for revenge in the Easterns...