Word: suzman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Richard M. Suzman '61, said yesterday that the moral issue involved is not so clear...
...Suzman, an anti-apartheid South African, said that Wits. University is a strong hold of opposition to the Nationalist government of Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd...
Wits. admitted Negroes until 1959, Suzman said, and stopped only when Parliament passed a law forbidding it. He emphasized that Wits. Would strongly prefer to have a nondiscriminatory admissions policy...
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...
Since Mrs. Suzman and many other Verwoerd opponents are Jews, Nationalist backbenchers shifted from white supremacy to antiSemitism, shouting: "Go to Israel!" One Nationalist M.P. was more poetic. He told Mrs. Suzman, "You are a finch chirping on a thorn tree...