The state used its power to apply racial discrimination in manufacturing
industries and public works. For this purpose, the Hertzog government
invented a convenient euphemism. Instead of admitting that he was dis-
criminating on grounds of race, Hertzog said he was discriminating in favor
of "persons whose standard of living conforms to the standard generally
recognised as tolerable from the usual European standpoint," as contrasted
with "persons whose aim is restricted to the bare requirements of the
necessities of life as understood by barbarous and undeveloped peoples."
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