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...eighth anniversary of the United Nations, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party warned last week that South Africa will walk out of the U.N. if India and other Asia-African nations persist in bringing up motions to condemn South Africa's bitter apartheid (racial segregation). Said Malan: "The U.N. is a failure, a cancer eating at the peace and tranquillity of the world. Unless it is radically reformed, it should disappear from the face of the world...
While Gandhi suffered. Prime Minister Daniel Malan, whose heart has a high melting point, pushed on with plans to abridge still further the liberties of South Africa's nonwhites. Malan's next great objective was to exclude Cape Province's 49,000 voters of mixed blood from participation in "white"' elections and to limit their political representation to four white M.P.s. Two of Malan's schemes to achieve this had already been declared unconstitutional by South Africa's appeal court, so last week the old (79) preacher-politician called a joint session...
Though his Nationalist supporters howled with rage, Malan blandly turned to another tack. Next day Parliament was confronted with a bill which would make a Malan-packed subdivision of the appeal court the final authority on constitutional matters. If the new bill passes, single-minded Daniel Malan will be free to proceed against "colored" voters, secure in the knowledge that the reorganized appeal court will approve whatever action he cares to take...
...last week, though Mavis had left the Zulus, she had not yet found a haven in Malan's white South Africa. Officials took a dim view of Dr. Botha's "rescue" of the child. Said the local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis...
Next day the old Prime Minister at tended a government luncheon honoring his Australian opposite number: Prime Minister Sir Gordon Menzies, homeward bound from London. In a thinly veiled warning to Commonwealth colleagues India and Pakistan, Malan told the world that South Africa "stands for the security of white civilization and Australia stands for a white Australia. The day may come when ... the same powers in the Indian Ocean that suggested that the white man must quit Africa might be knocking on the door of Australia . . . When Australia needs a friend, we shall be there...