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...certainly invited but not yet fully earned. His government had just introduced a bill designed to destroy the independence of South Africa's highest court; if passed, it would give absolute power to the majority Nationalist Party. As explained to Parliament by Nationalist Minister of the Interior Dr. Theophilus...
...chief censor is Interior Minister Theophilus Ebenhaezar Dönges, son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman. By law, he can ban anything he considers "indecent, obscene or. . . objectionable," and no court can overrule him. While his government is conducting an official inquiry into the policies of its own press and ceaselessly sniping at foreign correspondents who report from South Africa, Dönges has cut off more & more books and magazines that come from outside...
Died. Metropolitan Theophilus (Fedor Pashkovsky), 76, Russian-born primate of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America; in San Francisco. Admitting his church's spiritual dependence on the patriarchate of Moscow, he firmly denied Patriarch Alexei's claims to administrative control...
...TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister secret society controls a good two-thirds of the government members of Parliament...
Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...