For You Departed A Memoir

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning wear to the spine ends and corners. "In 1948, four months after the publication of Cry, The Beloved Country, the separatist National Party came to power in South Africa. In 1953 Paton founded the Liberal Party of South Africa, which fought against the apartheid legislation introduced by the National Party. He remained the president of the SALP until its forced dissolution by the apartheid regime in the late 1960s, officially because its membership comprised both blacks and whites. Paton was a friend of Bernard Friedman, founder of the Progressive Party. [6] Paton's writer colleague Laurens van der Post, who had moved to England in the 1930s, helped the party in many ways. Van der Post knew that the South African Secret Police were aware that he was paying money to Paton, but could not stop it by legal procedures. Paton himself adopted a peaceful opposition in protests against apartheid, as did many others in the party." .