Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Africa's 1955 Best Young Painter award for his Figures in Black and White, designed sets and costumes for King Kong, the famed South African musical. To Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime, he was a key suspect in the clandestine operations of the anti-apartheid underground. Last month police descended on the artist's swank home in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, arrested Goldreich, his wife Hazel, four other white men, and a dozen nonwhites...
...term comes to an end, some prisoners are being dutifully released, allowed to walk 100 yards, then rearrested for another three-month stretch.) A month after his arrest, Goldreich apparently got hold of cell-block keys, possibly with inside help, and freed three fellow prisoners-two anti-apartheid Asians, and a Jewish lawyer, Harold Wolpe, longtime defender of imprisoned leftists...
Dark Mutterings. The case called attention to the fact that among South African whites who oppose Verwoerd's apartheid, perhaps the most zealous are Jews. The bulk of South Africa's 116,000 Jews tacitly condone apartheid, the Jewish Board of Deputies has always been careful not to attack it, and some of the wealthiest Jews contribute to Verwoerd's National Party. But to thousands of others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader...
...Jews have so far been unmolested by the regime. The Goldreich escape, however, touched off ominous rumblings. Last week when Criminal Investigation Chief Reinier J. van den Bergh mentioned the Rivonia raid in a speech, a voice from the audience cried: "Jews!" Van den Bergh allowed that foes of apartheid might be "instruments of Jews...
Thanks, incidentally, to the United States, the final resolution was a watered-down version of the original request by the African bloc for a total economic boycott of the increasingly vicious apartheid government of Prime Minister Verwoerd. If the democracies are divided over even this mild action, African doubts of Western sincerety can only be strengthened, and justifiably...