Hendrik Verwoerd vs. Clement Attlee
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Hendrik Verwoerd
1901 – 1966
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, academic, and newspaper editor who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.
"believes in the supremacy of the European in his sphere, equally in the supremacy of the Bantu in his own sphere. There is thus no policy of oppression here, bu…"
Clement Attlee
1883 – 1967
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was deputy prime minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition on three occasions: from 1935 to 1940, briefly in 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He remains the longest-serving Labour leader.
"Looking back today over the years, we may well be proud of the work which our fellow citizens have done in India. There have, of course, been mistakes, there ha…"
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