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...indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini. He has measured the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen...
...exact opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop...
...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...
...Strijdom Government, in determination to erase the last traces of racial mixing, is about to end the "open" status of these universities. Dr. T. B. Davie, Principal of the University of Capetown, described Strijdom's aim as trying "to establish and perpetuate an inferior status in the African in relation to the European." All evidence seems to corroborate this charge...
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...