PRAISE FROM VERWOERD FOR JEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300350017-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Dr. Verwoerd, the South African a airs, that Jews had ma a goo(i
? Prime Minister, has told a visiting contribution to the country and
B'nai B'rith official that he is happy would. continue to do so.
that antisemitism has abated in The Jews of South Africa have
South Africa.
In passing, Dr. Verwoerd also
told hlr. Saul Joftes, the head of
B' al Irmo's office of international
n
i.
been following with interest tale
"unmasking," as an Afrikaans
newspaper ("Die Beeld") describes
it, of Mr. S. E. D. Brown, a
National Party member of British
origin. lie has been very sharply
criticised for his methods of ascrib-
Ing "guilt by association."
His group is in close spiritual
extreme Right-wing John Birch
Society In the United States. He
himself .edits a monthly called the
;,-"South African Observer," which
was at one time subsidised by the
ruling National Party.
Mr. Brown's monthly began by.
casting doubt on the loyalty of Jews
(whom he often associated with,
" Communism "). " liberals " and
', moderates in South African poli.
tics, and continued in recent times
by questioning the loyalty of lead-
Ing Afrikaners, among them the
Minister of Finance and the brother
? ? of the Foreign Minister.
What is significant in the con-
demnation of Mr. Brown within the
National Party is that it first
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