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South Africa had only one friend in the house (Portugal) as the General Assembly by a vote of 95 to 1 censured the apartheid racial policies of Prime Minister Verwoerd's government and requested member countries to take "such action as is open" to them against South Africa. It was nearly worse. A proposal to launch a worldwide economic and diplomatic boycott against Verwoerd's government was voted by a majority of the Assembly's Special Political Committee, but failed to muster the necessary two-thirds vote in the Assembly itself...
...that apartheid-minded Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has walked out of the British Commonwealth, many South Africans of British descent find themselves in an awkward position. Though they recoil from the vulgar "master-race" trumpetings of the regime, they are uncomfortably aware that most did not fight it much, all accepted the comfortable benefits. Wrote one such South African to the Johannesburg Star, in a letter that was part taunt and part self-mockery...
...After two days of soul searching, I have decided to back Dr. Verwoerd and the Nationalist government. I shall do so for the same reason that cinema audiences cheered the Prime Minister when he appeared on newsreels, for the same reason that kept hundreds of English-speaking South Africans from raising a public outcry at their loss of Commonwealth status...
...verdict touched off a jubilant demonstration outside the court and a night of carousing in Johannesburg's black quarters. Many a white man was relieved to discover that, however fanatically the legislature had backed the apartheid doctrine of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and apartheid's underlying axiom that white men are inherently superior to black men, South Africa's judges retained a dedication to law and the belief that all men are equal under...
Addressing his all-white Parliament in Cape Town in its chamber paneled in stinkwood, Verwoerd described his London trip as a "triumph." and blandly suggested that Macmillan's "strong words" against apartheid had been merely a gesture that Macmillan had been obliged to make in deference to Britain's "quite wrong" policies in its African colonies. What seemed to rankle most was Macmillan's line about the South African flag. Actually, cried Verwoerd. the flag would only be at half-mast if "we had chosen self-destruction and mass suicide." As it was, with South Africa established...