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There are men in Hendrik Verwoerd's government who lack the statesmanship of Houphouet-Boigny, Nyerere, or Kenyatta. But had these African leaders grown up in South Africa, their abilities would never have been known. They would have been bank clerks, messengers-or in jail...
...professed shock at what he calls "the disastrous results elsewhere in Africa," Verwoerd carefully avoids unnecessary irritation at the black governments to the north. He shrewdly plays down his support of the white rebel regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith, plays up his desire to soften the hostility of black Africa. "We leave the door of friendship open to all other African states," he said last month, "in the hope that more and more of them will in the course of time make...
...Verwoerd sends technical assistance to the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, and when they gain their independence, all three territories
...Verwoerd is one of the ablest white leaders that Africa has ever produced. He has a photographic memory, an analytical mind and an endless capacity for work. He is a brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there...
...Verwoerd does not think so. "I do not have the nagging doubt of ever wondering whether, perhaps, I am wrong," he proclaims...