South Africa
Sir, —Eighty years ago, racial discrimination became law in British South Africa merely by adopting New Zealand’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act with an added clause: “In the meantime,” the (act would apply only to workers of ’European descent. So much for David G. Thompson’s “Ij do know that racial reform stakes time and patience ...” (The common apology for discrimination was “When they’re leducated they'll get the vote.”; In 1944 I met General Smuts.; He asked about the Maori. I could tell him that discrimination (in Te Puke in 1938 was similar to the South African “colour bar.” He said that, with peace achieved, there would be a speedy move towards universal suffrage and racial equality, unless the pro-Nazi faction gained ' control. Unfortunately it did, thus losing the war; for all the good people living there. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. March 2, 1988.
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