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...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...
Abroad, Smuts is considered a great world statesman. At home, where Malan edged him from office by a narrow margin in 1948, Smuts is a politician who stands for internationalism and relative liberalism on the race question, while Malan's nationalism and increasingly stern apartheid (race segregation) bring tension nearer the snapping point in a nation one-fifth white and four-fifths black...
...such a united front there was one notable exception. The Dutch Reformed Church, dominant in South Africa, supports the "white supremacy" attitude of the Malan government...
When the law of the state collides with the law of God, there is bound to be trouble for both state and church. Presumably, the racist Malan government of South Africa, when it banned marriages between people of white and Negro ancestry last year, hoped to avoid such complications, but it was clear that they were not to be avoided. South Africa's churchmen declared war on the "mixed marriages...
...timid efforts to propitiate Malan, His Majesty's government seemed to be sacrificing both the Bamangwato and its own principles...