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...years have been subject to many of the same restrictions as the blacks. One law forbids their sex relations with whites; another forces them to live in nonwhite areas. They cannot buy liquor without a permit, are not allowed in white hotels and restaurants. But Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racist regime began to have second thoughts about white supremacy as applied to Asians when, a few weeks ago, it contemplated a tempting $250 million industrial contract with Japan...
Admirers sent dozens of gifts to his three-room hotel suite, about the same size as the tin-roofed, concrete-block bungalow back home in Groutville to which the Verwoerd regime restricts him. He went on a shopping spree with his wife, delighted photographers by throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who cannot tolerate criticism, has long been troubled by the English press, which has a daily circulation of 685,000 v. 175,000 for the Afrikaans press. Unlike the Afrikaans press, the English-language dailies boldly criticize the government, deplore apartheid, expose hypocrisy. The Johannesburg Sunday Times's Political Columnist Stanley Uys, for example, recently called Verwoerd "a mass psychologist with a massive contempt for the English-speaking masses...
Already, by loaded hints, veiled threats -and, more importantly, by infiltration -Verwoerd's Nationalists have turned the South African Broadcasting Corp. into a docile propaganda tool. Up to now, Verwoerd has feared to risk unfavorable world opinion by openly muzzling the recalcitrant English press. But his flanking movements have had their effect. South Africa's free press must follow a zigzag obstacle course past ten punitive national statutes. The government's Special Branch, which serves as censor in everything but name, combs every issue of every paper for statutory violations. A government commission was appointed...
When the English editors rejected a Verwoerd suggestion that they police themselves, Verwoerd decided to increase the heat with his new Ministry of Information, presumably as a first step toward government control. But Verwoerd may never have to go that far if he can exert enough pressure on the English dailies-and the business interests that own most of them-to make a chauvinistic moratorium on criticism stick. "Naturally," says Johannesburg Star Editor Horace Flather, "it's preferable for the enemy to commit suicide. Then you don't have to murder...