Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foremost among the problems Nehru had in mind was the recent near-revolt of South Africa's blacks against apartheid. With Nigeria and Sierra Leone slated for early independence, this may be the last Commonwealth meeting at which there are as many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
...State Department had followed a similar policy last March in its prompt official condemnation of Premier Henrik Verwoerd's South African government (ironically, an ally in the Korean war) for its bloody suppression of Negro demonstrations against apartheid. Said the State Department spokesman: "While the U.S., as a matter of practice, does not ordinarily comment on the internal affairs of governments with which it enjoys normal relations, it cannot help but regret the tragic loss of life...
...dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base for apartheid. "This hideous doctrine of apartheid must be openly condemned," said De Blank. "The Africans must be shown by constructive action-not words alone -that the churches have turned their backs on compulsory apartheid." He demanded that the Dutch Reformed Church repudiate apartheid or be thrown out of world religious bodies...
...someone could shake the long-held rationale of the Dutch Reformed hierarchy, South Africa's stubborn men might at long last be shaken in their self-righteous faith in apartheid itself...
...South, it is "segregation." In South Africa it is apartheid. By either name, it means racial trouble. What does the Southern press have to say of recent conflict in South Africa? And what does the South African press say of Negro sit-ins in the U.S. South...