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...symbolized this opposition. He went into the slums to comfort black Africans hounded by the police. He threatened to close down his mission school for Africans rather than let the government impose a second-class curriculum. He became apartheid's most formidable adversary. Last week the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, provincial of the Anglican Community of the Resurrection in South Africa, was under orders to return to England in January to become novice master at his community's house in Yorkshire...
...home of a white teacher of Johannesburg's Central Indian High School, they confiscated an old Chinese figured-silk dressing gown. Muttered one detective: "You never know what these symbols mean. Better have them translated." At St. Peter's Priory, they interrupted Anglican Missionary Trevor Huddleston in the middle of a Scripture lesson and expropriated 44 documents. The prize loot: Father Huddleston's correspondence with South African Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton...
...over three days, reached into the homes and offices of some 350 South African citizens, as well as headquarters of some 50 organizations. Although the raids were made under the Suppression of Communism Act, their real purpose was betrayed by the identities of the searched. The majority, like Father Huddleston, were simply open and avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries...
...Then, in addition to the usual questioning that all Negro passport applicants must undergo, detectives subjected Stephen to an additional grilling on every topic, from why he wanted to go to the U.S. to what he thought was wrong with education at home. In spite of such obstacles, Father Huddleston and Stephen went ahead with their passport application. They posted the necessary ?100 bond, then sat back and waited...
...passport had still not come. But every time Huddleston wrote or phoned the Ministry of the Interior, he merely got the stock answer that the matter was under consideration. Huddleston wired to a member of Parliament, and was promised an "investigation." He appealed to the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, eventually got back from the Ministry the answer: "The matter is receiving attention." Finally he sent off one more telegram, and this time he received a letter from the Native Affairs Minister's private secretary accusing him of "crude methods." By last week it seemed obvious that the South African...