Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Boss? Egged on by such fanatic lieutenants, aging Pastor Malan sought to silence the opposition. In Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers shouted him down. Unable to make himself heard, Strauss appealed to the Speaker of the House, an ardent Malanite. The Speaker's only comment: "Resume your seat. I think you have said enough." Slumped on the front bench opposite, Prime Minister Malan chuckled in derision...
...reaction was sharp and strong. Opposition Leader J. G. Strauss, now the leader of Smuts's old United 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...
Faced with a split in his own party, Malan risked revolution and interracial war if he persisted in defying the court. "Your immoral acts," said Opposition Leader Strauss, "are now also proved illegal. With every month that passes while South Africa is governed by you, the prospects become more fearful. Resign. Resign. Resign...
...news and photographic material in this supplement were complied under the supervision of Margaret E. Fechheimer '52, Radcliffe Bureau Chief, and Rowena V. Strauss '53, of the Business Board. The CRIMSON gratefully acknowledges the assistance in modeling the fashions herein displayed...