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...International Court of Justice last week ruled that South Africa must not take over South-West Africa without approval from the U.N. "We will not submit," said Prime Minister Daniel Malan of South Africa. Here, too, the natives would be helpless...
...South-West Africa is a part-desert, part-fertile country with barely one inhabitant for each of its 317,725 square miles: 38,000 whites and 294,000 blacks. But diamonds, minerals, karakul pelts and farm products make it a valuable property. Germany grabbed it in 1885 and broke the power of the native tribes by a series of savage murders. South Africa seized it from Germany during World War I, and received a League of Nations mandate...
After Malan's Nationalists came to power in 1948, they announced that South-West Africa was no longer a mandated territory, but an integral part of the country. What went on there was none of U.N.'s business, according to Malan. U.N., spurred by a dedicated Anglican clergyman named Michael Scott, representing the Herero tribe, took the case to the International Court...
...hollow victory. Malan denounced this "gross interference in the internal affairs of both South-West Africa and South Africa," went right ahead with plans for an Aug. 30 election in South-West-from which he has barred the colored seven-eighths of its population...
Andrew Jackson had at least offered the dispossessed Cherokee of Georgia land farther west. Nationalist Daniel Malan offered the tribesmen of South-West Africa nothing...