Word: paton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton, have rarely disagreed about keeping their preferred position over the 10 million nonwhites. Last week, for the first time since the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the write front was cracked. A band of South African Liberals, among them Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton, formed an unashamedly Liberal Party open to all South Africans, regardless of race. The Liberal Party platform: equal rights, made safe by equal votes, for blacks, whites and browns...
...last week cleared another controversial onetime China Hand: John Paton Da vies Jr., who is now a top political adviser to the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany...
...automatics tucked under their pillows. Yet fear seeps in. It is an inward-growing fear, the kind that made a Nationalist M.P. cry out recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that we do not know, for we fear them both . . . For we fear not only the loss of our possessions, but the loss...
...many ways, too, the story is not so tight and compelling as it should be. Paton set himself the task of trying to find a solution to the terrible racial problem of South Africa; behind his tragic story he is weighing the attitudes of various men and groups toward the problem in the light of the tragic situation...
...book Paton presents three major schools of thought: the standard white man's desire to keep the natives in their place, the desire of some of the natives to agitate more or less violently for equality, and the Christian approach of brotherly love. In the end he comes to the conclusion that the latter offers the only hope for the future, but the advocates of brotherly love have a hard time winning out over the other beliefs...