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First they advertised that a Roman Catholic priest named Loretto du Manoir would be chairman. Johannesburg's Bishop William Patrick Whelan (son of an Irish father, a Boer mother) summoned the priest and told him that "it would be impolitic for the church to be mixed up in this." Said Du Manoir later: "He was awfully polite about it, but firm." The next advertised chairman. Philosophy Professor Errol Harris of W'itwatersrand University, quit when the university principal warned him that Witwatersrand dared not anger the Malan government, whose subsidies it needs. Jack Unterhalter, a Johannesburg lawyer, finally...
...night last week, 1,200 defiant men & women packed into a small, smoky, underground hall beneath St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg. As cops of Malan's "Special Branch" looked on, white lawyers, teachers, clergymen and office workers boldly sat side by side with Africans and Indians. Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), a party founder, spoke with apostolic fervor: "For the first time we openly proclaim the things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced...
...after the meeting, Johannesburg's Boer newspapers published photos showing whites and Negroes gathered together, captioned: NEGRO MEN GOT SEATS WHILE WHITE WOMEN HAD TO STAND. All over South Africa, good, churchgoing Boers goggled at these revelations of Liberal wickedness, and cried Skande (a scandal). The respectable anti-Malanites were also scandalized. Cried the Rand Daily Mail: "South Africa is not yet ready for Liberalism." Before returning to Natal, where he works in a tuberculosis sanitarium for Zulus, Alan Paton had a parting word: "He who waits until the time is ripe often waits until it is rotten...
London newspapers duly took note of the song on the occasion of Malan's arrival for the coronation, but the Prime Minister, already bent over by the white man's burden, sagely paid it no mind. Back home in Johannesburg, however, his followers exploded. NEGRESS' SATIRICAL SONG ABOUT DR. MALAN! cried the Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler. PALACE APPROVES IT; PRESS SLANDER FOLLOWS...
...Nationalist South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan ordered South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, to obey his three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected from their homes and stores in downtown Johannesburg and moved, without a penny's compensation, to Jim Crow shantytowns far away from the white suburbs...