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...steadfast advocacy of nonviolence in leading the fight against South Africa's racial discrimination. But by giving the prize to a black who is almost unknown outside South Africa, the Nobel Committee made a clearly political award that deliberately rebuked the racial extremism of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government. Calling the award a "smack in the face," Johannesburg's die Transvaler bitterly complained about the "spirit of enmity toward a country that has in no way harmed Norway and Sweden." Luthuli was jubilant. "Thank God for it," he said. "God has answered the call...
...Supplication. In the past, many black nationalists have disliked Luthuli almost as much as the white supremacists. Far too restrained for black extremists (even Verwoerd once acknowledged his moderation), Luthuli has deplored the Congo's premature independence, has acknowledged that "Africans cannot manage without the whites. We have accepted Western civilization; we like it and are absorbing it as fast as we can despite the efforts of the government to cut us off from it. White South Africa's divine task is to propagate this civilization, not to hoard it from...
...Save the white man in South Africa." Spotlighting the main election issue with this racist campaign slogan, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's extremist National Party last week swept to a landslide victory in South Africa's most apathetic election since the Nationalists came to power in 1948. So foregone were the election results that only 77% of the 1,800,000 eligible white voters went to the polls, the lowest percentage in memory; in the all-white House of Assembly, 70 of the 156 seats up for election went uncontested. Picking up three new seats from its main...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's race laws: in the background is Verwoerd's recent withdrawal from British Commonwealth...
...Verwoerd and Nationalists by a landslide...