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...South Africa last week, the supreme court put a crimp in apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation by which Prime Minister Daniel Malan hopes forever to separate 2,600,000 whites from four times their number of nonwhites. A Cape Town Negro named George Lusu had been arrested and tried for sitting down in a railroad waiting room marked "Whites Only." Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres delivered the majority verdict: "The State has provided a railroad service for all its citizens, irrespective of race . . . Segregation is [legal] but it could be and should be exercised without members...
...member of the Labor Party, a tiny group even more strongly opposed to Malan than the United, made this statement in Parliament last Wednesday...
...When Malan demanded special powers to suspend all laws when he should feel like it, the British-dominated United Party began to protest. "Do you want racial equality?" the Nationalists inquired. The United Party caucus last week decided to give Malan dictatorial powers...
Opposition to Daniel F. Malan's Nationalist government of the Union of South Africa is beginning to scatter like a dandelion gone to seed. The Boer-dominated Nationalist Party has found the stumper for its United Front critics. When voices are raised against a new law to oppress and subdue the African Negroes, the Nationalists simply ask: "Well, do you want equality...
...moderate Johannesburg Star also recoiled. "Both as a dangerous threat to public liberties, and as an irresponsible act on the Reichstag fire model," it editorialized, "the bill must be opposed by every means." There was no sign, however, that Malan's Nationalist majority in Parliament felt anything but. admiration for Justice Minister Swart's plan...