Police State Fears In South Africa
rru A LONDON, April 26. -The Archbishop of Cape Town (Dr. g ' S: Clayton) said today that if the boutn African Government wished it could turn the country into a police State m less than a week. He said a dangerous amount of Power had been placed in the hands of individual Ministers, and people were being deprived of the right to effective resort to courts of law. The Archbishop was speaking in London at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel He believed, he said, that South Africa s apartheid (racial segregation) policy would break down for economic reasons.
“I believe this plan of complete apartheid is impossible and that an attempt to implement it would ultimately lead to both Europeans and non-Euro-peans dying of starvation,” he said. The Archbishop was reporting on. the state of the church in South Africa.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27644, 28 April 1955, Page 13
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