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...bitter memories that a fellow student at Stellenbosch, the great Jan Christian Smuts, spent a lifetime trying to erase. Malan, a trained predikant (preacher) in the Dutch Reformed Church, taught his Boers that they are a chosen people, "elected" by God to build in South Africa a "new Jerusalem." He did most of the building himself, as the crusading editor of the anti-Semitic Boer paper, Die Burger; as the founder and leader of the now all-powerful Nationalist Party. He came to be called "the Boer Moses...
...Malan's New Jerusalem, 8,000,000 Negroes mine the gold, herd the cattle, empty the garbage cans and dig the graves for 2,500,000 whites. Though the Negroes work, they may not vote; though they pay taxes, there are few schools for their children. They may live only in carefully, often brutally policed squalor. This is God's will, claimed Daniel Malan, as he quoted (out of context) from the Old Testament: "Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...
...brought to authoritative completion with the third volume, The Kingdom of Acre. Historian Runciman writes in the magistral tradition of Gibbon, Macaulay and his mentor, G. M. Trevelyan. The first two volumes (TIME, Dec. i, 1952) told how the half-civilized Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands and trade, also lost their crusading fervor...
...fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
When later Crusades invaded Egypt, Brother Francis of Assisi went ashore to persuade the Sultan to let the Christians pass to Jerusalem in peace. "The Moslem guards were suspicious at first," says Run-ciman, "but soon decided that anyone so simple, so gentle and so dirty must be mad, and treated him with the respect due to a man touched by God. He was taken to the Sultan al-Kamil. who was charmed by him and listened patiently to his appeal, but who was too kind and too highly civilized to allow him to give witness to his faith...