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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom was eight years old when the savagely fought Boer War ended in British victory. His life was devoted to reversing that judgment of history. When he died last week at 65, after a long illness (heart disease), wasted away to less than 100 Ibs., Prime Minister Strijdom, hailed by his Nationalist supporters as "the Lion of the Transvaal," had nearly accomplished his object...
...with the British Commonwealth, he hated "British-Jewish capitalism," he hated the threat to the 3,000,000 whites of South Africa of 11,000,000 slowly awakening blacks, coloreds (mixed bloods) and Indians. He was one of the first advocates of apartheid (segregation ). When he took over as Prime Minister in 1954, succeeding Daniel F. Malan, a man of the same stamp, his administration rammed through laws that packed the Supreme Court and Senate, began the mass resettlement of natives into reserves. He was suspicious of all outsiders, and frequently warned travelers leaving for England to beware...
Until a successor is named, Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...good shape for recovery without returning to tight money. Banks have plenty of credit available for businessmen. Despite the Fed's action, free reserves are well above $350 million, where bankers consider that credit begins to tighten. Though short-term interest rates have improved, most bankers expect the prime rate to hold at 3½% for some time because there is still no big jump in industry's demand for money. Business loans, which dropped $1.8 billion in the first half of 1958, show only slight signs of picking up. Said one Manhattan banker: "There is still inventory...
Died. Johannes Strijdom, 65, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa; in Cape Town (see FOREIGN NEWS...