THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, December 27, 1¥*.- FRICEN REPORT "Calm, Order Maintained | Only By Fear, Says Writer Author Alan Paton, a {South Africa now than when - firm opponent of South Afri- |Paton was a boy ca's racial segregation pol- "T don't know how you meas- icies, was interviewed by (ure happiness. I don't think Canadian Press reporter (anyone can measure it. It's the 'Joseph MacSween at his |same when you ask is there home in Natal. Here he tells (more hatred in this country. i = ed pono ag he senses | "Hatred doesn't show itself = a snectcaian under totalitarian or semi-tota 4 itarian rule. It's too expensive By JOSEPH MacSWEEN tg show hatred. You see what KOOF, South Africa 'ath happens in a place like Los vat" ~ YEAR-END ¢alm and order are being maift,|Angeles, with people getting ed in South Africa by "this|killed in race troubles, when all errible fear," said author-pdli- this hatred suddenly crupts. tician Alan Paton. | "So I can't answer those The words of the 62-year-old| questions. author of Cry, the Beloved) «t¢ there was.an : cob | vany loss in the J Country werp strangely chili] certtude of the white South STARTING TODAY, the beautiful Natal countryside.) ,and the situation, and any fush with flamboyant camel) .orresponding gain of certitude thorn and jacaranda trees. |on the part of the African peo- Some people will say to YOu pie that they could change the that there is no fear--that if] situation, then I really woujdn't you're a decent chap, there's|jike to prophesy what would be nothing to worry about here.|the consequences. We ourselves, But I know this fear goes Very! my wife and I, and my friends, deep." Not only opponents of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Nationalist government are "inclined to be fearful, but many supporters of the govern- ment also." "I'm sure that many people who are converted to the gov- ernment side become the more fierce supporters the more fear-~ ful they are." Leader of South Africa's hard-pressed Liberal party, the|° fuddy-faced Paton obviously is not the type to scare easily though his passport was lifted following a visit to Canad@ and the United States in 1959. |too--we don't encounter much jhatred."' Verwoerd's separate develop- ment plan envisages that the African population will with- draw from white areas into "Bantu homelands," one of which, the Transkei, has al- lready been established with a measure of self - government. |But at present the tide is the lopposite way--the Negro popu- lation in white areas is increas- ing. | "Dr. Verwoerd has on sev- eral occasions made this ex- traordinary prophecy that the tide is going to turn in 1978," CANADA'S No. FULLY AUTOMATIC . DEFROSTING 1 REFRIGERATO TWIN REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER Combinatio OU NEVER DEFROS BUILT AND BACKED BY GENERAL MOTORS FREE BAD BOY DOLLS with every major purchase | LATEST DELUX $110. WHY FRIGIDAIRE IS CANADA'S 40. 1 REFRIGERATOR 1. Twin Porcelain Enamel: Crispers 7.77 Ib;-Across the top Zero Zone hold almost 3% bushel -of Fresh Food. Freezer, with extra fast ice Frusts and vegetables. cube freezing. "J was asked at the time/said ' Paton. "Nobody knows whether it was a big blow. I why. To me, it's sheer fantasy. said I would rather hold my|The idealists who follow. Ver- : @pinions than my passport.;|woerd are pacified by a thing - ovmnremamaene That's my position still." jlike the Transkei." : ve ; f But there were improve- e tONDEMNED APARTHEID }ments. For one thing, the prin- In his North American tour|ciple of the rule of law was Paton made no bones about his| more observed than in the past. eondemnation of apartheid--ra- lal separation--and also spoke/MORE COURTESY SHOWN on the cruelties of the system) «jn other words the white which he regards as "the finest| an who brutally assaults or Dlend of idealism and cruelty | kills a black man hasn't got the the world has ever developed." |-ame chance he would have in "And I must confess to you I gee no reason why I should be loyal to this Afrikaner National- fst government. It isn't the state, in my opinion. "Tf I were to go overseas and try to organize anti-South Afri- can action, I think the govern- ment would be entitled to deal yery severely with me. But I maintain my right as an indi- = to answer the questions t were put to me." Asked in Canada what exter- mal action could be taken against apartheid, Paton men- tioned three things on which South Africa is dependent--gold of which it is a great producer, oll, of which it is short, and shipping, on which its trade de- pends. He had in mind sanctions or embargo. "T gave the answer that would be obvious to anyone who knew anything about it," he paid. / "There's every indication that boycotts--individual actions by countries or individuals--have made no economic difference. The one boycott that has wor- ried South Africans the most, although by no means all of them, is the boycott by English and American playwrights who won't allow their works to be performed here." RESTRICTION WORKS As for his own career, Paton does not feel the passport re- moval was a constricting factor Mississippi or Alabama. Also, I believe the standard of public courtesy has improved, al- though courtesy of course does not mean justice. There are certain openings, notably in medicine and the academic world, available to black peo- |ple that weren't open 20 years jago. | "] wouldn't like to give the jimpressidh that nothing gets better." Comparing the majority Afri- kaans-speaking South Africans with the English-speaking peo- ple, who make up about 40 per cent of the population, Paton said that "when it comes to wanting to rule the roost, there's not much difference between them." "But I think that probably English-speaking people would not have tampered with the rule of law in the same way as the Afrikaners did. However, now that these things have been done, English South Africa is linclined to accept them. | "So I'm not suggesting there is any great moral difference between the two." Paton gave an impression of linflexible confidence combined with a deep awareness of trials ahead not only in his own coun- try but elsewhere in Africa, The continent was haunted by a her- itage of humiliation. Europeans, with all their tech- but "what does constrict is-that/nology and scientific education, you feel you have other duties|had gone into these countries to perform that have nothing to|and 'done exactly what they do with writing." lwanted to do--good and bad." Me tte rere 4 - --_ "There's no doubt that the dreiab cng eer ave '0\muropeans who came to Africa withdraw from 'public service. |+-ated the Africans in general that case, I would toncen-|_. : Vag 4 .. iting." with something pretty close to Lic = we Finis ft Paton's contempt. This, I'm sure, in- ns oad beingine aton S| flicted deep wounds. compassion as a writer and as|- a politician derives from the 13 2 Faye 4 om re hae 4 geal a pices gh tarmg slg id ee what I'm Pa gt pure a reformatory for Afric ys, , t ) when he learned much about| sentimentality. ~ z vit i Pasa poverty, squalor and hardship. |it's true. 7 icted deep Although Paton's party, with wounds on the black personal- jts multiracial ideals, has Bs pel i i oe members in Parliament, he, "Whether the cans can feels Liberalism and _ allied|recover from that as soon as movements have helped to they get independence I doubt change the government's mind very much. 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