Volume 11, Number 8 · November 7, 1968
Beware of Melancholy
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Against the World: Attitudes of White South Africa
by Douglas Brown
Doubleday, 244 pp., $4.95
African Opposition in South Africa: The Failure of Passive Resistance
by Edward Feit
Stanford (Hoover Institution), 223 pp., $7.50
The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa
by E.J. Kahn Jr.
Norton, 288 pp., $5.95
The Seeds of Disaster: A Guide to the Realities, Race Policies and World-wide Propaganda Campaigns of the Republic of South Africa
by John Laurence
Taplinger, 334 pp., $5.95
The Long View
by Alan Paton, edited by Edward Callan
Praeger, 310 pp., $6.95
Rhodesia: Crisis of Color
edited by Theodore Bull of the Central African Examiner, with an Introduction by Gwendolen M. Carter
Quadrangle, 184 pp., $4.50
Douglas Brown is a conservative English journalist who lived for five years in South Africa. He has sympathy, and even admiration, for the Afrikaners, but disapproves, on grounds of Christian principle, of their practice of apartheid. He sees their predicament as tragic, its outcome as probably cataclysmic; he strongly dislikes liberal criticism of South Africa, and condemns any effort to change the system by external intervention. His divided feelings about South Africa, and the intensity of his concern with its problems and solutions, make him an exceedingly alert observer. He writes well himself, and has a good ear for the revealing word and phrase. Nobody, I think, has written more illuminatingly about his narrow but important subject: 'attitudes of white South Africa.' His book has been banned in South Africa.
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