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...silver & gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...
...delegates represented some half-million supporters in all parts of South Africa, roused to resistance against the increasingly severe racial segregation policies of 77-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan,*a distant cousin of handsome, pipe-smoking Sailor Malan...
Public view of the 2½-day veterans' congress was brief; Sailor Malan asked the press to leave before he outlined strategy for his group. His plans included: formation of five-man groups in every town to combat the Nationalist secret societies, 2) going underground if Prime Minister Malan bans his veterans movement. Said Sailor Malan: "Despite our spectacular beginning, we have only succeeded in focusing public attention on the dangers besetting South Africa. The battle has yet to commence in earnest...
...ashore, Sailor Danielsen lost his sealegs, wavered into trouble. On a spree in London one night, he smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
...witness stand looked like anything but the popular conception of a Communist, and his story made him an even unlikelier candidate for the role. Big, blond Sterling Hayden had quit school when he was 15, became a fisherman off Newfoundland, a sailor in the Caribbean, the master of a sailing schooner by the time he was 21. He had wound up in Hollywood as the untamed adventurer of half a dozen films, was briefly married to Actress Madeleine Carroll and dropped everything in 1941 to help out in the war. But before the House Un-American Activities Committee last week...