Word: verwoerds
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...ignorance of some people is ofttimes appalling; do not South Africa's Prime Minister Verwoerd and the mass of cretins cavorting behind him, in the slime and filth that is his belief, even suspect what is to be the certain fate of their children? Bloodshed and tyranny lead to but more bloodshed and tyranny...
Home for Idlers. The government's own answer to the explosion apartheid had generated was more apartheid. Hendrik Verwoerd's basic racist policies would continue, said Minister of Lands Paul Sauer, 62, sitting in as head of the Cabinet for the hospitalized Prime Minister. Minister of Justice François Erasmus proposed to rid the cities of "idlers and other superfluous Bantu" by sending them back to the Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work...
Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
Most Southern editorial pages simply ignored South Africa. Some took refuge in the obvious: observed the Richmond Times Dispatch, "The attempted assassination of Prime Minister Verwoerd emphasizes once again the explosive nature of South Africa's dilemma." There were a few scattered voices of reason. Inquired the Tampa Tribune: "How could the white supremacists expect the Negroes to submit indefinitely to degradation and oppression in their own land...
...referred to South African Negroes as "extras from a Hollywood safari movie." The Charleston News and Courier ("South Carolina's Most Outspoken Newspaper") used the assassination attempt to draw a parallel with Southern white integrationists: "The fact that it was a white man, not a native, who shot Verwoerd should surprise no one. Though racial revolution has spread across the Dark Continent, it would be easily put down but for the white men whose feelings of guilt, fear or misplaced idealism drive them to fight against their own breed." The Dallas News, while sympathizing with the extremist view, wistfully...