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...weather in his native Natal is usually mild and sunny this time of year, but as Albert John Luthuli strolled along the streets of Oslo last week in a temperature of 14° F., an inner glow kept him comfortable. Said South Africa's Luthuli. the former Zulu chief who was in Oslo to receive the delayed 1960 Nobel Peace Prize: "I do not feel the cold because I am meeting so many warmhearted people...
...hotel suite, about the same size as the tin-roofed, concrete-block bungalow back home in Groutville to which the Verwoerd regime restricts him. He went on a shopping spree with his wife, delighted photographers by throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard...
...Race. He reminded his listeners that, compared with Europe's own bitter revolutions and civil wars, Africa's present revolution is both orderly and quick, its end "within sight of our own generation." Of his homeland. Luthuli said: "It is not necessary for me to speak at length about South Africa. It is a museum piece in our time, a hangover from the dark past of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying. Here the cult of race superiority and of white supremacy is worshiped like a god . . . Thus it is that...
...About the Vikings. The government responded by twice imposing speaking bans on Luthuli; in 1956 it arrested him for treason, but later dismissed the charge. Even white South Africans began to listen to his speeches. Explains one African: "Luthuli was able to say the most dangerous things about the government in the most charitable way." Unmoved by his charity, the government finally, in 1959, banished him to his home district for five years, forbidding him to speak or enter politics. But Luthuli kept up his resistance campaign; last year, after the Sharpeville massacre, he was fined $280 for publicly burning...
...Luthuli's award is a badly needed shot in the arm to South Africa's black moderates, whose influence was steadily eroding because of their leader's exile. It also places the Nationalist government on a spot. If the government refuses him permission to travel to Oslo next month to pick up his $43,300 prize money, it will put itself in the same company as Russia, which in 1958 would not allow Boris Pasternak to collect his Nobel Prize for literature. Said South Africa's famed Novelist Alan Paton: "If they let Luthuli...