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...join the 360,000 Asians already there. Last week the flow reached flood proportions, then stopped as suddenly as the flow of water from a reservoir when the sluice gates are closed. In late 1953 South Africa passed a law barring all future immigration of Asians into white-supremist South Africa. On the night before the law went into effect last week, the airports were jammed with last-minute arrivals. A party of 150 Asians was stranded en route in Nairobi, unable to charter a plane to make the deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Closing the Door | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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