This is a Day of Affirmation – a celebration of liberty. I was happy to have had the opportunity to meet and speak with him earlier this evening, and I presented him with a copy of Profiles in Courage, which was a book written by President John Kennedy and was signed to him by President Kennedy's widow, Mrs. I am very sorry that he can not be with us here this evening. Ian Robertson, who first extended this invitation on behalf of NUSAS, I wish to thank him for his kindness to me in inviting me. I know the National Student Association in the United States feels a particularly close relationship with this organization. Your work, at home and in international student affairs, has brought great credit to yourselves and your country. For a decade, NUSAS has stood and worked for the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – principles which embody the collective hopes of men of good will around the globe. Today I am glad to meet with the National Union of South African Students.

I am making an effort to meet and exchange views with people of all walks of life, and all segments of South African opinion – including those who represent the views of the government. I am already greatly enjoying my visit here. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.īut I am glad to come here, and my wife and I and all of our party are glad to come here to South Africa, and we are glad to come here to Capetown. I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology a land which was once the importer of slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr.

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