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Robert van Tonder, 54, is a 14th generation Afrikaner whose Danish ancestors arrived in the New Cape colony in 1700. He lives with his second wife and his six children in a rambling, thatched-roof farmhouse on a 100-acre homestead 20 miles west of Johannesburg. It is a peaceful countryside of rolling brown hills, white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly...
...town. I don't know how or why, but it is so. This means we cannot act as quickly as you can, but when a direction is set, we all act together..." Then the invaders moved into the Mayor's house. Among them were Lieutenants Prackle and Tonder. Prackle was "a dancing-partner, a gay young man who nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young...
...These horrible people!" cried poetic Lieut. Tonder. "These cold people! They never look at you. They never speak. They answer like dead men. They obey, these horrible people. And the girls are frozen. ... I want a girl. I want to go home. I want a girl. There's a girl in this town, a pretty girl. I see her all the time. She has blond hair. ... I want that girl...
Implacable. Lieut. Tonder's meeting with this girl is the high point of The Moon Is Down. For in this human episode there emerges for the first time in the literature of the democracies a pure jet of that implacability which has been the driving force of the Nazi revolution and without which the counterrevolution cannot succeed against...
...little while, can't we talk together like people -together?" She looked at him for a long time and smiled. "You don't know who I am, do you?" she said. She was Alex Morden's widow, but she did not say so to Lieut. Tonder. She pitied him at last, stroked his hand, stroked his cheek. "God keep you," he said as he left. Then Molly Morden realized that her feeling of pity was an impermissible weakness that might lead to disaster. Others offered to kill the officer for her. She realized that, because she pitied...