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...Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 59, South Africa's husky, silver-haired Prime Minister, was born in The Netherlands, but at two, was taken to South Africa, where his father became a Dutch Reformed missionary. Verwoerd (pronounced Fair-voort) was educated at Cape Province's Stellenbosch University, intellectual fount of Afrikanerdom, became a professor of applied psychology, which should have given him uncommon insight into the minds of his nation's n million nonwhites...
Neither Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd nor any member of his Cabinet has ever set foot in the Negro-ruled new states of Africa, but this does not prevent South Africa's confident Prime Minister from speaking for the millions who populate them. "The mass of Africans do not want independence," he assured his Parliament last week. "They are just being used by a few small groups [of Africans] who are really considering their own interests." In the same building six weeks before, Britain's Harold Macmillan had warned of the "wind of change" sweeping the continent and of Britain...
Never before had the assembly chamber of the Union of South Africa's Parliament echoed with more noble sentiments, nor had Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his Nationalists sounded more concerned with the welfare of the country's Bantus (blacks...
...Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
...effort to keep black and white strictly apart, tall, Dutch-born Minister of Native Affairs Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd recently got the Native Laws amended so that he now has control of practically every social contact between the races, even in white areas-schools, hospitals, clubs and churches. Stubbornly self-reliant Minister Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power...