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The Week Vol. 3, No. 11, 17 March 1965 · p. 4 of the scan · 281 words

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BOMB —contd. any kind of discussion of the inevitably long process ahead of us: the building-in of delays and controls; the intricate means of the recovery of political decision; the complicating and developing measures of genuine disarmament, and the clearing of zones. But also we march, because for us these processes are governed by an aim and an idea that we bring into the Streets, as a reminder to peoples and governments, Our study groups are not for political advantage in the struggle of alliances, nor for means of delay and advantage in an inevitably changing world. We come out, not to lobby, hor as a Pressure-group, but to demonstrate, in the only way open to us as the only acceptable standard of politics: the tesponsibility and Participation of men and women who have no status but a human Status, in a world we are determined to recover as human, in public, in the open, where the realities can be seen. Every voice and form of the political alienation we Oppose can be expected to be against us: the centtalised press, the political bureaucracy, the huddling commentators, deferential to what they take to be Power. We can understand their hostility, for it js against their anxious and limited settlements that we continue to march. But anyone can join us, or come out to argue against us, or come out and insist that we give details and particulars of what we are trying to do. Anyone can come, because that is what we are for,

HE following report which appeared in the ‘Port Elizabeth Evening Post’ of 13th March is an astonishing comment on the lengths to which Apartheid has been taken:

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