[Sir Colin Coote, editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Typescript, with Autograph additions, of essay written in support of apartheid following a visit to South Africa in 1971, with particular reference to the economy, ending with 'White Man's Burdens'.

An interesting document on the South African situation at the beginning of the 1970s, written in support of apartheid by a leading British journalist. See Coote’s entry in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Philip Dosse, who was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See ‘Death of a Bookman’ by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’ at the time of Dosse’s suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. There is no indication where, if anywhere, the present item was published. Coote explains the context at the very beginning: ‘Early last year, I visited two samples of the controversial Republic of South Africa - the Cape Province, which is the oldest region settled by Europeans, and the Transkei, which is the most advanced of the Bantustans. I had a suspicion that the growls and oaths with which the policy of apartheid is normally bombarded by critics from outside might not be wholly deserved. [...] My conclusions from examining this corner of the vast territory of South Africa were that nobody could really define an alternative to the principle of apartheid in the unique conditions prevailing in South Africa; [...] I was therefore glad to be able to check up during the first two months of 1971 these provisional conclusions. There were two main criteria. One was what were the conditions in other parts of the country - the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal, and South-West Africa. The other was the effect of a number of highly important happenings during the preceding year.’ A total of 19pp, 4to, in five sections: ONE: ‘South Africa Revisited’. (Numbered in autograph ‘I’.) 4pp, 4to. TWO: ‘South Africa’s Economic Problems’. (Numbered in autograph ‘II’.) 4pp, 4to. THREE: ‘III | South Africa’s Economy’. 3pp, 4to. FOUR: ‘II | Nibbles at Apartheid’. 4pp, 4to. FIVE: ‘White Man’s Burdens’. (Numbered in autograph ‘III’.) 4pp, 4to. Each page on a separate leaf, and the whole held together with paper clips, together with a slip of paper with ‘Sir Colin Coote’ on it. There manuscript additions in the margins of the first two sections, and minor emendations to them and the last section. On the reverse of the last leaf of all is the deleted autograph passage: ‘I wonder if the Archbishop ever peceived that there are two Commandments in the South African politics. The first is “Thou shald not sabotage European supremacy”. The second, equally a Divine injunction, is “Thou shalt not [neglect?] non-Europeans”.’ In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight rusting from paperclips.