Carolyn Reeb's List: South Africa & Apartheid

• Malan left the pulpit in 1915 to edit Die Burger, a Cape Town newspaper that supported the National Party, which had been founded by J.B.M. Hertzog the previous year.
• member of the delegation that went to the Versailles Peace Conference to request independence for South Africa on the basis of self-determination.
• From 1948 until the time of his retirement in late 1954, Malan’s administration was preoccupied with establishing absolute apartheid. His objective was to secure white (particularly Afrikaner) rule for all time.

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• Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
• policy of apartheid, condemned as a crime against humanity, continues seriously to disturb international peace and security.
• Disarmament would release immense human and material resources now devoted to military purposes.
• General and complete disarmament is one of the highest aspirations of all peoples

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