Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident led to court, where anti-apartheid forces pushed a test case to see whether non-whites could be legally barred from pools. The High Court in Salisbury found against such segregation, and white-wigged Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle cited U.S. Supreme Court desegregation rulings. "These decisions are not binding on me," he said. "But they are of persuasive force...
Under the circumstances, a relatively impressive showing was made by the youthful Progressive Party, a liberal splinter group of the U.P. The only strong national party favoring abolition of apartheid and direct representation of nonwhites in the Assembly, the Progressive group was formed in 1959 by eleven U.P. members disenchanted with their party's racism. Although in the election they lost ten of their eleven seats to U.P. candidates pledged to rub them out, the Progressives pulled in 69,000 votes (20,000 more than anticipated) from defecting moderates fed up with the lack of racial alternatives between...
...Suzman, 43, the wife of a Johannesburg heart specialist and mother of two grown daughters. A onetime United Party M.P. from suburban Johannesburg's sheerest silk stocking constituency. Politician Suzman broke away from the U.P. in 1959, will be the only member of the Assembly not committed to apartheid. "The difficulties of being alone in Parliament will be enormous," she says. "I won't even be able to move amendments as I shall have no seconder, but I shall do my best." She adds, perhaps too hopefully: "For the first time, the white electorate of South Africa...
...happened over a U.N. speech by South Africa's Foreign Minister Eric Louw, who offered a provocative whitewash of his country's apartheid policy, previously condemned by the U.N. While he was clearly practicing doublethink in his contention that South Africa's rigidly repressed blacks are actually enjoying blissful freedom and enlightened education, Louw also uttered some truths and half-truths that hit the mark. Example: he stressed the Africans' high vulnerability to blandishments by the Soviet bloc, "which conveniently ignores conditions existing in Hungary and in the Soviet Union's occupied or colonial territories...
...taken and the motion carried by 67 votes to South Africa's 1, with 20 delegates abstaining and 9 (including the U.S.) "not participating" in the vote at all. Adlai Stevenson, who was absent, later lamely explained the U.S. position: while disagreeing with South Africa's apartheid policy, the U.S. upholds every speaker's right to be heard...