Labour party, and the anglophile Dominion party won
105
seats in the
general election of 1943, the National party, with 43 seats, emerged as the
parliamentary
opposition.f"
As the election of 1948 approached, the National party, assisted by the
plethora of local branches of Afrikaner organizations, formed an effective
alliance of the principal rural and urban classes of Afrikaners, appealing to
their ethnic and racial attitudes, as well as their material interests. It at-
tacked the British link, which had led to the involvement in two world wars
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