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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 33
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ce talk together in a public mesting, study in the same school, live-
in the same neighborhood, or sit in the eame restaurant, wovie or =
hotel lobby. It is high treason to attempt to alter this s7sten in
@ny way, even dy democratio means. Any wan, woman or child, black .
or white, who advocates democracy based on equality of righte way be. 4
branded, according to a South African lew, a communist ee]
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Hiltione of South Africans understandably find these conditions
Pree eK fF antolerable. Recently, 160 persons--black and white--who have been” ”
ain Reese ss:it ggtepoken in their denunciation ef the government's racial policy -:-
Yost CO ae «were arrested and charged with treason. This story is told in the ©
at eagtion .. @nolosed reprint from the CHRISTIAN CENTURY. Among them were such -,
fideo. The P> . ~———--sutatanding persons as Z.K. Matthews, ‘Henry Lace Visiting-Professor!.-
RE Toa at Union Theological Seminary in 1952-53, who is widely known ™ tho,
" HAROLD seal _ United States. If moderate mon are suppressed, there is little °.-~-
_ @bance for democratic evolution im South Africa. 2 2 0. = "1%
Rr Rev. W. Sedhgeue : Ye 4:
The Prowscont .
Ae “4¢ en /¥e Dave been urged by the Bishop of Johannesburg, ‘The Right a
Ry are a Reverend Ambrose Reeves; Allan Paton; Father Trevor Huddleston ani”
MACKA fae others to establish a defense fund here to be used in two ways: ange
jogical Seminary first, to help provide those under arrest with the best: possible a,
Bae ecchooe Coleg - legal defenee. Second, to help mest the critical neede faced Wyo
Kan 47 “- their families. - - oe | .
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oh the American Comittee pn Africa 1 uniquely equipped to de
Layee uror t=. with this appeal and has. ted the task of establishing a special
eran aga wacowee SFE Ps South Africa Defense Fund. cause I believe the crisis in South. -
N fe no Africa to be so dangerouk, and the eituation there so obnoxious rhe
aCe “=< ll people of er wii ve yecepied the Co- cba irmeansn? ©
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attention. There is su e at ‘art ain ie: or “Ganoence
", 4°. ef.160 persons in South ; We ve 8 test of worst
monply. Important valpes to the free potions of of th A Se sake
. -Jvetter distinguishes demooraoy tof free
meti to esek change constitutionally? rane you urge you “te *pelp us See x: 7
your generous contribution, whether it be $100., g20:, or $5 Let
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