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, strongly opposed the merger. Malan and 19 other MPs defected to form the Purified National Party, which he led for the next fourteen years in opposition. Their (Federal Council) met in Bloemfontein to work out their own political program on July 5, 1935. In 1939 the question of South African participation in

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caused a split in the United Party. Hertzog's Nationalist wing broke away and merged with the Purified National Party to form the Reunited ''(Herenigde)'' National Party. This party went on to defeat the United Party in the election of 1948.

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