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...South African government, harassed by taut racial tensions, is as sensitive as a naked nerve to everything that affects South Africa, including what its people read. The Malan government has clamped a constantly tightening censorship on imported publications...
...oldest surviving son of the late Mohandas Gandhi thus began a campaign of civil disobedience to the anti-Indian, anti-Negro laws of South Africa. Last month, Gandhi warned Prime Minister Daniel Malan that the government's apartheid policy "would drive one to Communism, whether one wishes it or not." His aim: to provoke arrest and go to prison, thus "seek to change the heart of the government by my self-imposed sufferings...
...Indians, are more anti-Indian than ever. Manilal tried to sell his case to the Natal Indian Congress, founded by his father in 1894. But the Congress ignored their founder's son, and, led by the Communists, spent their time denouncing "American imperialism in Korea." Worst of all, Malan's government also ignored him, and proved that passive resistance might be the best weapon against passive resistance. No summons for his arrest came. Gandhi last week went back to the library and railroad station, this time taking his wife Sushila along. Again there was no arrest. Gandhi...
...seems to me that Afrikaners have created the terror for themselves, as men so often create the monsters which eventually devour them. It was a sad day for South Africa when Malan and his program of apartheid took over her destinies . . . South Africa lost her soul when she lost Smuts...
...Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila's good friend, a white Anglican rector, was unable to marry them; the civil magistrate also refused. Reason: in 1949, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government had passed a law prohibiting mixed marriages...