Brandwag
Americannoun
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In The Return of the King, signal beacons, calling for aid, are lit along the mountain tops between Rohan and Gondor – as “freedom fires” were also lit along the hilltops of the Orange Free State by Afrikaner adherents of the Ossewa Brandwag, a fascist organization in the 1940s.
From Time
Last fall General Smuts got to work on the Brandwag, proved in a series of well-publicized trials that its leaders got both ideas and money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in South Africa, he joined the anti-British Ossewa Brandwag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently the Ossewa Brandwag has devoted almost more attention to the comedy of paunchy Dr. Malan trying to mount a horse than it has to the Smuts Government.
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