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...British Commonwealth, many South Africans of British descent find themselves in an awkward position. Though they recoil from the vulgar "master-race" trumpetings of the regime, they are uncomfortably aware that most did not fight it much, all accepted the comfortable benefits. Wrote one such South African to the Johannesburg Star, in a letter that was part taunt and part self-mockery...
...arrived home from London prepared to boast about, not apologize for, leaving the Commonwealth. Verwoerd found many of his countrymen confused and uneasy. The morning of Verwoerd's return, police made predawn raids on the homes of eight African leaders, hauling them from bed to jail; in Johannesburg white hoodlums began beating up Africans in front of the city hall...
Landing at Johannesburg, Verwoerd was greeted by a premature 21-gun salute. (Until May 31, when South Africa formally becomes a republic, Britain's Queen Elizabeth will still technically be South Africa's chief of state.) At the airport Verwoerd reassuringly told a crowd of 20,000 Afrikaners that what had occurred in London had actually been a South African "victory." Obviously relieved by Macmillan's assurances that Britain did not intend to end its preferential tariff agreements with South Africa despite the Commonwealth split, Verwoerd seemed to have changed overnight from a lifelong Anglophobe...
...pretty face. A delicate, floating water fern named Salvinia auriculata appeared in patches that spread with astonishing speed. By last week dense mats, some of them strong enough to support a man, covered 15% of the lake, and local scientists were in a dither. Professor Boris I. Balinsky of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand warned that Salvinia might turn the lake into a swamp and eventually...
...hoped that, in years to come, "it will be possible for South Africa once more to play her part in the Commonwealth." At week's end English-speaking South Africans were feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During the newsreel at a Johannesburg movie theater, the audience loudly applauded both Verwoerd and Britain's Macmillan, and was relaxed enough to roar with laughter at shots of Verwoerd shaking hands with Nigeria's black Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...