Richard Thomas
United States
Undated, about September 1966
10 pages
ASSUMPTIONS • 1. Apartheid theory: sociological arguable • 2. Apartheid practices • (a) Bantustans • (b) Present deficiencies of urban apartheid • 3. Economic apartheid • 4. Apartheid “endangers” peace • 5. It is necessary that changes should be instigated in South Africa • 6. From 5 above it is notes that “communication” (Government to Government, business to business, business to Government) with South Africa has remained open for 20 years • II. POLICY PROBLEMS • 1. “Cold War” • (a) U.S. might be called into South (ern) Africa to suppress a “Communist” uprising...
ASSUMPTIONS • 1. Apartheid theory: sociological arguable • 2. Apartheid practices • (a) Bantustans • (b) Present deficiencies of urban apartheid • 3. Economic apartheid • 4. Apartheid “endangers” peace • 5. It is necessary that changes should be instigated in South Africa • 6. From 5 above it is notes that “communication” (Government to Government, business to business, business to Government) with South Africa has remained open for 20 years • II. POLICY PROBLEMS • 1. “Cold War” • (a) U.S. might be called into South (ern) Africa to suppress a “Communist” uprising • (b) U.S. might, through apathy, allow ANC/PAC to become Communist dominated • 2. Broad U.S. Foreign Policy issues • (a) Present situation affects U.S. relations with Africa and the Third World • (b) Racial conflagration in S.A. would give U.S. private enterprise a stigma not easily erased • (c) The association of U.S. business with S.A. puts U.S. foreign and domestic proclamations on democratic sanctity in hypocritical light • 3. U.S. Government/U.S. Business relations • (a) S.A. business lobby (Engelhard) • (b) Present economic policy toward S.A. “is to neither encourage nor discourage investment”. • 4. Broad Economic issues • (a) No multilateral economic coercion can be feasible until the U.K. realigns trade ties and investment priorities i.e. until the U.K. enters the Common Market • (b) S.A. is in a commanding position in the Free World as a supplier of militarily and industrially strategic raw materials • 5. U.S. Black minority • III. POLICY ALTERNATIVES • 1. Maintain the status quo of US/SA economic relations and simultaneously use additional political coercion to correspond with verbal condemnation • (a) Business as “channel of communication” • (b) Concurrent political action • 2. Economic disengagement and political coercion • Political adjuncts to economic disengagement • IV. RECOMMENDATIONS • 1. No economic action, either sanctions or maintenance of status quo will have desired political effect in the first round • 2. No political action will split the whites and weaken Verwoerd’s resolve • 3. Aid, economically, independent peripheral states • 4. Aid movements to majority rule in Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia and South West Africa • 5. Aid S.A. refugees; U.S. Government contribution to Defence and Aid Fund of Netherlands Government • 6. Disengagement from economic involvement and dependence upon S.A. • FOOTNOTES [Notes: This may have been written by Richard Thomas. It is not known what, if any, organization produced this document.]
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