Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poverty that festers through vast acres of its capital city in some of the world's most squalid slums, Nigeria is nevertheless an optimistic and happy land. An all-black nation whose non-African residents number only 16,000, it has no notion of the meaning of apartheid or Jim Crow. Eager for and already well on its way to self-government, Nigeria bears no grudges. "Why should we be anti-British?" Nigerians are likely to answer if queried. "We're more or less British ourselves...
...ends our Senate," said the antigovernment newspaper the Rand Daily Mail. The way is clear for Strydom to abolish the franchise of the last of South Africa's 8,500,000 nonwhites, and to enact apartheid and the total "master rule" of whites that he has preached so long. The way is also clear, at some future time, to proclaim a republic and make Afrikaans the only official language of the land. If the prospect disconcerted other English-speaking South Africans than a few Black Sashers, they were too despairing, or too interested in not rocking the boat...
...important round in their fight by sweeping 16 of 18 seats in South West Africa's territorial assembly elections. The territory's influential German bloc, whose 10,000 members warmed up to Hitler in 1939 and seem to be all for South Africa's racial apartheid now, provided the wide margin of victory. But the winners, for all their anti-U.N. gloating, intend to go slow in merging South West Africa into the Union. The Nationalist government apparently wants first to build up its influence to the point where German Southwesters no longer think of themselves...
While preparing to return to England on his superiors' orders, Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, South Africa's great enemy of apartheid (TIME, Nov. 14), showed newsmen a remarkable document. It was a letter from a government official named Hertzog Biermann, and it typified the bitterness which, in the name of God, many white South Africans harbor against an outspoken man of God. Excerpts...
...even when it is technically right. Officially, the U.S. takes the stand that the Arab-Asian motion is not "the best way to achieve constructive results," on the ground that U.N. discussion of South Africa's restrictive policies would only harden white South Africa's support of apartheid...