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Many a U.S. editor may quarrel with such criticism, but it comes from a man who has more than earned the right to make it. As editor of the Rand* Daily Mail in Johannesburg, Laurence Gandar, 49, has persistently assailed his country's race policies with the dedication and energy that he finds lacking in U.S. newspapers...
Full Reckoning. "Apartheid is a contraction of the human spirit, an impoverishing act of self-concern, a retreat from life," wrote Gandar in one signed Page One editorial. "Come on, let's raise some hell," he urged all those who may disapprove of apartheid. "Do not allow yourself for one moment to think that protest serves no purpose. It shows an increasingly hostile world that all White South Africans do NOT subscribe to the shameful actions and attitudes of this racist government...
...does Gandar spare his readers a reckoning of the full cost of integration: "It means the dismantling of colour bars in every sphere. It means the likelihood of having a Black family as one's neighbours, a Black man as one's boss. Unthinkable? No doubt. But then, the history of multiracial communities is essentially the story of the reluctant accepting the unthinkable. The case for integration does not rest on the unreal assumption that everyone will live happily ever after. It rests on the plain fact that there is no practical alternative...
South Africa's government gets such criticism in the entire English-language press, but nowhere with more unremitting vehemence than in Gandar's Mail. Why Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd permits it is one of the unexplained mysteries of an otherwise intolerant land. He has the power to silence his critics, or at least to command the sort of subservience he gets from the country's Afrikaans press. But Verwoerd must also be aware that his country's English-language papers outcirculate its Afrikaans papers by 5 to 1-clear evidence of the reading preference of South...
...Gandar Dower, Tory M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland, reminisced about the canings he had received as a schoolboy: "I cannot remember that I ever suffered from it, and I took my revenge on my housemaster years later by making him my trustee and executor of my will. I think that that will show that I bore no ill will...