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...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
Rumors of Rebellion. The Strauss party carried the fight to the country. Strongarm squads of both sides brawled in the streets and there were rumors that would not be downed of rebellion and civil war. "The time has come," wrote an Orange Free State Boer to his local newspaper, "when all burghers should be armed . . . with a rifle and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Who knows what lies ahead?" A German South African who had fled from Hitler thought he knew...
...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...
Nationalist vulgarity coupled with Strauss's new boldness strengthened the opposition. Quavery old John Christie, 69, longtime leader of South Africa's small but powerful Labor Party, left his bed in a nursing home to be present at the debate. He struggled to his feet, shaking a gnarled fist at Malan. "If it's the last thing I do," he rasped, "I'll fight the wicked proposals of this government...
Outside Parliament, too, opposition strength grew. From Major Louis Kane-Berman, national chairman of the opposition Torch Commando, came a stirring telegram: "Fight on your feet or live on your knees." Strauss's reply: "We'll fight like tigers." At Cape Town's City Hall, he told a cheering crowd that his United Party had formed a single "democratic front" with Torch Commando and the Labor Party. Then he issued an ultimatum: "If the government creates anarchy [by ignoring the court], the people will meet force with force...