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...justice of the Union's Supreme Court, is both the country's most eminent jurist and its best-loved Afrikaans author; his novels and verse are found in practically every veld farmhouse. In a book published early this month, called Our Responsibility, Fagan pronounced Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's rigid apartheid "hopelessly impractical," and pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from European industries." Just as "Karoo farmers do not waste their time arguing whether the low rainfall of the area they farm in is something...
...letters, including some from unknown farmers pleading with Fagan to lead a political movement. In his airy house outside Cape Town, Old Boer Fagan referred all callers to Jacobus Basson, 41, the fiery, redheaded Nationalist M.P. who was expelled from the party last fall. He had protested Prime Minister Verwoerd's decision to end the last semblance of black representation in Parliament: whites voting in the Africans' name. Last week, after meeting with some 50 other Nationalists who think that Verwoerd has gone too far in separating the country's 3,000,000 whites and 11 million...
...cave-in, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd solemnly told Parliament that after five attempts to bore through 500 ft. of earth and limestone in search of the men, "all hope" had been abandoned. But wives of three of the white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said...
...down, two thirds of the audience applauded perfunctorily, and the other third, including his host Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, applauded not at all. Rising to reply, in a manner that was not as hostile as his words, Verwoerd declared: "We have problems enough in South Africa without your coming to add to them. We do not see eye to eye" on racial matters, he went on; what is most necessary today is "to be just to the white man of Africa." This time, the applause was loud and clear...
With the liberals out, hopes ran high that the United Party would at long last be in a position to form a coalition with disgruntled Nationalist moderates led by Finance Minister Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, who was thought to be fed up with Verwoerd's rigid extremism. The hopes were short-lived. At week's end Verwoerd and Dönges mounted the platform together to address a political rally in Worcester, Cape province. After both agreed that full apartheid is the only way for South Africa, Dönges said pointedly: "This is my answer...