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...voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized 175,000 World War II veterans in his Torch Commando, which is pledged to defend the constitution-if necessary, by force. Said he last week: "I make this last-minute appeal to Prime Minister Malan to turn away from this dangerous path before it is too late...
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...
Last week white-bearded Sarel Alberts invited white-bearded Dolf de la Rey to visit his farm. He had been thinking things over. Said Alberts to his lifelong friend and enemy: "I know the Nationalists well. They are unfit to rule the country. I want to join Torch and fight them...
...against South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate ways: Alberts backed Malan; De la Rey is now vice president of the anti-Malan Torch Commando...
...walking the sands of his supposedly uninhabited island, is "exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore." What gives this episode its magnificence is not its mechanical "plot value" but its power to set the reader's imagination flaring like a torch. Even while his startled intellect searches this way and that for an explanation of the footprint, his anxious heart is oppressed with forebodings as to what the footprint may mean for Crusoe...