Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign for signatures on a petition against segregation in two South African universities will end today. Over a thousand undergraduates have signed during the three-day drive in house dining rooms...
...petition is directed against an attempt by the South African government to exclude non-whites from the universities at Capetown and Witswatersrand. These are the only unsegregated universities in the Union...
English, Greek, or French South African, or Latin; Almost any wench Would cotton to Mountbatten...
...Threats. Behind Ben-Gurion's defiant position stood the will of a tough and self-righteous people. They knew that they might suffer further economic distress by their defiance. It came as no surprise to them when next day, on behalf of six Asian-African nations, Lebanon's Charles Malik introduced the long-delayed U.N. resolution calling on all states "to deny all military, economic or financial assistance" to Israel. Yet for all the Arab hostility to Israel, and all the influence the U.S. can bring to bear, few in the U.N. really wanted to see the resolution...
Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact...