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Article: A way out in South Africa. (race relations)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 14, 1986
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A WAY OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA
NO HISTORIAN faults Neville Chamberlain for wanting to avoid war at Munich in 1938. Rather, he is scored for believing this goal was possible, indeed that he had achieved it. President Reagan, Secretary of State George Schultz and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Chester Crocker seem similarly naive when it comes to South Africa, behaving as though they are persuaded the Pretoria regime will move of its own volition toward representative government.
But whereas the gullibility of Chamberlain and France's Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud was, if regrettable, at least understandable--their reasoning having been dominated ...