Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Suave German Rising
As New South African
Nationalist Leader

CAPE TOWN, South Africa,
Aug. IL (CDN) DIR. Theophilus
Ebenhaezer Donges. a suave Ger
man-South African, is gradually
assuming the leadership OF the
chauvinistic Nationalist move
ment in the Union OF South
Africa.
A high mogul in the secret
Broederbond, the 50-year-old
minister Of interior, posts and
telegraph is we'll on his way to
replacing the ailing 75-year-old
DR.. Daniel F. Malan.
Curt, sardonic and unbending
DR.. Donges is widely accepted as
"the most capable and the most
dangerous man in the strong
willed Afrikaner Party made up OF
Dutch descendants with a sprink-
ling of Germans and French.
They were voted into power last
year over Jan Christian Smut
United Party Of Britishers.
Has Sumptuous Salon.
One of DR.. Donges' Offices scat
tered throughout South Africa Is
a spacious salon on the ninth floor
of Cape Towns sumptuous new
post office building.
His outsized desk is always clear
of papers and spotlessly polished
When he removes his horn
trimmed spectacles. his eyes are
cold and steel-grey. An elder IN
the Dutch Reformed Church and
grandson Of a German missionary
to Africa, DR.. Donges is neat,
sober and serious. and intolerant
Of those who aren't.
South Africa's serious race
problems are a subject on which
he has Arm convictions and con-
siderable latitude in their shaping
British-tinged governments OF
the past, says DR.. Donges. have
erred in permitting racial barriers
and distinctions to be broken
down.
They must be built up" he
declares, mot torn down. The
nationalists stand for 'apartheid.
That is complete segregation
Native Africans must have their
own world-their own commun1-
ties. schools, buses. amusements
and opportunities to progress in
their own sphere"
Stamp Windows Segregated.
That Is why in the last few
months Africans have been forced
to use special stamp windows IN
Cape Town postofnces, why 9
special side entrance is now used
lby natives at johannesburg Z
railroad stations and why unem-
ployed natives are not allowed In
the city limits Of Durham.
DR.. Donges proposes repatriat-
ling to India some 100000 Asiatics
now living in South Africa. Thu
parliament that adjourned in Jul,
passed a rigid law against nixee
marriages aimed at Indians ane
Mulattoes. -
E The calm but effective cabine
minister rammed through anti
Negro and anti-British laws dur
ing the closing sessions Of tn
parliament-many Of the provi
sions without debate or discus
sion-and identified himself a
the Nationalist toughest parlia
mentarian.
1T is unfortunate" says he
that most Of the newspapermer
here who send reports outside thu
country are British. That is why
the world has a distorted picture
of the Nationalist Party and oul
program.
IT some of the writer's were
Afrikaners, the world would get
a different view"
To Keep Color Line.
DR.. Donges says that the reason
behind complete segregation is to
keep the European color line from
becoming a mixture. During the
campaign last year, he stated that
South Africa will become land
of mixed breeds. like South
America If the SHUTS party stays
in power"
Considerable time and money
he says, will be required to builc
separate worlds for the Indians
blacks and mulattoes so each will
have full opportunities in then
own spheres. But that is the goal
In the meantime, white su-
premacy must be maintained com.
pletely in South Africa.
In case Of another war;" hi
says, "our sympathies will be witt
the West. But we have such q
large native population and *
many internal problems that w
will have to spend our energies
on internal defense. The native
Africans are potential Communist
recruits"
Never Voted on Neutrality.
Most of the leaders Of the
Nationalist Party favored strict
neutrality during the last war
DR.. Donges, who lived for a time
in German Southwest Africa. die
not enter parliament until 1911
| 90 never WAS forced to vote on the