ATTACK ON DE BLANK
“Hospitality Abused”
ißec. 8 p.m.) BLOEMFONTEIN, May 31
The South African External Affairs Minister, Mr Eric Louw. said today that Dr. Joost de Blank, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, had abused South Africa’s hospitality almost since he arrived in the country. He was commenting on a sermon which Dr. de Blank—the former Suffragan Bishop of Stepney, London—made last Sunday in St. George’s Cathedral. Dr. de Blank criticised • ‘officially-sponsored jollification” marking the 50 years of the Union as “both immoral and indecent.”
Dr. de Blank today led a Union Day procession of 3000 who pledged themselves to guarantee all South Africans’ liberties regarded as “inalienable human rights.” Mr Louw, who wa* m Bloemfontein with other members of the Union Cabinet to attend the Union festival celebrations, said the Archbishop’s remarks were shocking and would disgust the bulk of South Africa’s white population, including thousands of adherents to the Anglican Church
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29220, 2 June 1960, Page 15
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