with the Afrikaners. In private life he was charming; in public affairs,
dogmatic, intolerant, domineering, and xenophobic. After acquiring a
doctorate in psychology at Stellenbosch, the premier Afrikaner university,
and spending 1927 visiting German universities, he became professor of
applied psychology at Stellenbosch. In the mid- I 93os, he promoted the
cause of the Poor Whites and opposed Jewish immigration from Nazi
Germany. In 1937, he became founding editor of Die Transvaler,created
with nationalist: funds for the express purpose of rallying Transvaal Af-
rikaners to the party. By 1948, he was widely known as a fiery republican.
Malan then made him an appointed senator and in 1950 minister of native
affairs. He was prime minister of South Africa from 1958 until September
6, 1966, when, as he was about to make a major speech in Parliament, a
deranged attendant stabbed him to death."
During Verwoerd's premiership, apartheid became the most notorious
form of racial domination that the postwar world has known. The cabinet,
with enthusiastic support from the rank-and-file members of the National
party, tried to plug every gap in the segregation order. The process con-
tinued under Verwoerd's successor, B. J. Vorster, prime minister from