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...visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his way through the Union of South Africa, allowed to meet none of the blacks (who make up 67% of the population), he could sense the mood of the country from the headlines. The three-year-old "treason trial" of 30 political prisoners droned on. Police rounded up 30 Africans to try for the drunken explosion of violence that recently killed nine policemen in Cato Manor, a Negro ghetto. "Cato Manor," wrote one reader to the editor, "should make the white population of South Africa realize that they are surrounded by savages...
Teacup Serenade. It was the touchiest point in Macmillan's Africa tour. So far, he had been saying amiable nothings (TIME, Feb. 8). Now he hardly dared be rude to a "Commonwealth Club" member, even though it had just proclaimed its intention of becoming a republic (no longer recognizing Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign). If he spoke too sharply, he might increase South Africa's harsh feeling of isolation without changing its policies. His hosts had serenaded him with a rattle of teacups and surrounded him with politicians, businessmen and plain folks, all of them white...
...seventh of his nine days, Macmillan's Rolls-Royce swept past a few dozen whites waving Union Jacks and crying "Good old Mac," and a cluster of grim blacks holding up antigovernment placards, and up to Parliament to address a joint session. His speech had been drafted long ago in London to be the major effort of his trip. In the parliamentary dining room sat his expectant hearers, most of them bulky, stolid-looking Afrikaners...
Slowly, sonorously, without a hint of smile, he set forth, first with courtesies, then with his message. "The wind of change is blowing through this continent," said Macmillan. "Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact, and we must come to terms with it." South Africa had a right to its own policies, but, said Macmillan, "in this shrinking world, the internal policies of one nation may have effects outside it," and the old saying, "mind your own business" now needs amendment to "mind your own business, but mind how it affects...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...