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South African law holds that white man's liquor is colored man's poison. Last week, Minister of Justice Charles Swart broadened the definition of "colored" to include Chinese, proclaimed that henceforth no Chinese will be allowed to buy liquor without a special permit...
...South Africa's Chinese colony, 4,000 strong and as sober as Mandarin ducks, this was a matter of face. At the same time that he signed Swart's Chinese prohibition decree, Governor General Ernest George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao...
...Swart relented-for one evening only. He told Johannesburg cops to look the other way while Shao and guests took a nip. So Shao went to the ball. Its purpose: to raise funds for Alcoholics Anonymous, which, in South Africa, is strictly an all-white organization...
...trial was a farce. Swart offered no evidence, largely because he had none: Sachs was expelled from the Communist Party in 1931 because he wasn't sufficiently "revolutionary," and only recently in South Africa's supreme court he won $9,000 damages from a Nationalist newspaper which alleged that he was a "concealed Communist." Said the influential Johannesburg Star: "Sachs must be the only person in the country to have a supreme-court ruling that he isn't a Communist...
...Johannesburg Magistrate Edward George Halse knew better than to thwart Swart. Sachs was guilty, he ruled, because under the Suppression of Communism Act, a man is legally a Communist if the Minister of Justice merely says he is. Halse admitted that the minister's power is "wide and drastic, and must make serious inroads on liberty." Notwithstanding, he sentenced Solly Sachs to six months in jail...