Word: swart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until a successor is named, Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...Parliament, Strydom's Justice Minister Charles Swart declared that the opposition planned to use this "unfortunate instance of a public servant" against the Nationalists in the campaign for the April general elections. On hearing this, the Nationalists glowered at their opponents and burst into shouts of "Shame...
...likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists of the Cape Town area. As a compromise, party leadership may fall to Minister of Justice Charles Swart, whose most notable recent contributions to jurisprudence have been his anti-Communist laws, his introduction of whipping for criminals, and his recent bill urging the death penalty for armed robbery...
Died. General Napoleon Zervas, 66, swart, barrel-chested Greek soldier of fortune, reactionary politico, onetime (1950-51) Minister of Public Works and Merchant Marine, who redeemed his prewar years as a conniver, gambler and opportunistic plotter with a skillful guerrilla war during the German occupation of Greece (as head of EDES-National Democratic Army), for which he received Britain's Order of the British Empire, later was credited with rounding up 17,000 Communists in Greece's postwar civil strife; of a heart ailment; in Athens, where his elder brother, Merchant Alex Zervas, collapsed and died after seeing...
Hellenism." Tall, swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios himself likened his return to Athens in Easter week after a 13-month exile to "Christ's return to Jerusalem." A surging throng, which included the Greek Foreign Minister, senior military officers, and politicians of every hue, was on hand at Athens airport. As his plane touched down and Makarios emerged, smiling glassily (he had been airsick on the flight from Kenya), the crowd roared. Women shrieked and wailed, struggled to kiss his hands and black robe...