PRAISE FOR SOUTE AFRICA
Garfield Weston, a Canadian mal timi11ionaire industrialist, highly enthusiastic about South Africats “apartheid.” He feels” that it is paying off handsomely. His opinion is an authoritative one, too; he heads an enterprise that employs 6,000 workers in. South Africa, and. last year's profits jumped close to $1,500,000 above’ the previous year while the first quarter of this year was the. best inthe company's history. 2.
. Weston. voiced his opinion in Toronto on returning from a “ threemonth trip to South Africa where he heads "George Weston Limited, n one of a number of companies under his: “management .
“Africa was never a "black country, it he was quoted as saying by the French~ language La Presse of Montreal [April 21]. You have to’ be precise, “It is ridiculous to try to compel the South African government, by means of the United Nations, to grant the right to vote to millions: of colored people. whose customs are not ours and who have. ‘no conception of Christian: morals." | In his opinion, the: word: "apartheid" simply | means that "you isolate the blacks: in their own districts,"
"Believe me," he said, ! tevery black mammy can appeal to the government for the solution of any social problem, a
In. housing, he claimed, “Verwoprdts government puts up as good homes for the blacks as the British government - does for whites in England, Does
He boasted that the government of South Africa has raised the standard of Living of the African population by five per cent a year and if anyone in his Canadian audience didn!t believe it they should go. and see a themselves whether or not he was exaggerating.
* Win our company," the Canadian plutocrat ‘wound up, ae ‘employ white boys, Bantu boys, and boys from the. Basuto tribe, ‘who all work together, and I aian't see a sullen look on any of their faces,"
~ [No, we didn't make up the above, That's the way a white . multimillionaire.really thinks as he prepares himself in the Christian way for the better world to come. ] ~ -
Directeur~Gé6rant: Pierre FRANK. ltéditeur),