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...neck hold aloft a small white dove. "This is our messenger of good will," he cried. But, as the crowd sat in stunned silence, the bird fell to earth with a small, feathery thud, declining to fly. With such inauspicious symbolism did South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd return last week to public life, two months after an assassin's attempt on his life...
Many feel that Christianity's greatest handicap in Africa is its record of tolerating segregation, notably in South Africa. Two such sworn enemies as South Africa's Premier Hendrik Verwoerd and Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank agree that a crisis is at hand for Christianity on the continent. Said Verwoerd last week: "We are faced today by threats to the future of civilization, to the contribution of the white man in South Africa . . . Christianity is threatened in Africa more than anywhere else." His prescription: continued segregation and repression...
...their faces that they represented "the uninformed opinion of people who have never been in South Africa." Taking advantage of the tradition that the conference's final communique must be unanimously approved, Louw blocked every draft until he got one so innocuous that his boss, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, still convalescing at home from an assassin's bullets, could agree to accept it. The communique tamely noted that the Commonwealth was a "multiracial association" and called for "good relations between all member states." Despite this victory of sorts, it was clear that the battle was far from over...
...Prime Ministers. In a series of tête-a-tête he won agreement to avoid open discussion of South Africa's problems at the conference's plenary meetings; in return, South African External Affairs Minister Eric Louw, substituting for recuperating Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, agreed to discuss the matter with other Commonwealth leaders informally...
Many feared the Nationalists would pull out of the Commonwealth, destroying the economic advantages of preferential tariffs and British investment money. Others were simply apprehensive at the prospect of greater Afrikaner control that a republic would bring, along with an acceleration of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's harsh policy of apartheid. Taking heart from Verwoerd's steady recovery in a Pretoria hospital (last week doctors successfully operated to remove both of the assassin's bullets), the Afrikaners riposted by accusing the English-speakers of divided loyalties. Nationalist M.P. Dr. Carel de Wet shouted: "The real enemy...