“South Africans Sit On Racial Volcano "
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 20. South Africans were sitting on a volcano as far as racial violence was concerned, a New York negro clergyman said today.
He is Dr. Gardner Taylor, president of the Protestant Council of Members of New York, and after a civic reception in Sydney today, he told reporters there was no glimmer of light in South Africa “The South Africans have gone too far to turn back," he said. “Racial violence in their country will erupt on a full scale within the next two years. The clashes, so far, have been only the start of it.
“While the whites have gone too far, the blacks are just starting. They now are at the stage where they believe death would be better than their present existence.
“A vast, seething restless anger is about to break its bonds. “The South African coloureds are frightened and as they get even more afraid, so more restrictions are placed on them.
“The cruelties increase the fright and the fright increases the cruelties. It is a non-stop vicious circle.
“The person I would not like to be most is a South African white,” he said.
Dr. Taylor said pressure on South African whites from other nations also was mounting.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 13
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