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...Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
...nationwide radio address, Verwoerd pulled no punches, promising 1) an eventual South African republic and 2) the achievement of strict racial apartheid. An active member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he identified his selection as Prime Minister with the dictates of God: "In accordance with His will, it was decided who should assume the leadership of the government in this new period of the life of the people of South Africa...
...Servant Problem. The nation's 10 million nonwhites and many of its 3,000,000 whites were not so sure about all this. "A disaster," said an opposition newspaper, the Cape Times, of Verwoerd's appointment, and in the black slum townships ringing the South African cities, the reaction ranged from explosive resentment to dismay. Yet Hendrik Verwoerd is no simple, Kaffir-bashing white supremacist. Born in The Netherlands, he was brought to South Africa as an infant by his grocer father. A fiery Nationalist from the start, he graduated from the Afrikaans-speaking Stellenbosch University, continued...
...Verwoerd's newspaper, Die Transvaler, triumphantly headlined every Nazi victory in World War II, railed against "British Jewish liberalism." When he was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, Verwoerd sued for libel. But the judge ruled that Editor Verwoerd "did support Nazi propaganda; he did make his newspaper a tool of the Nazis in South Africa, and he knew...
...Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists of the Cape Town area. As a compromise, party leadership may fall to Minister of Justice Charles Swart, whose most notable recent contributions to jurisprudence have been...