THE CHRISTIAN AFRIKANERS - The Works of F. N. Lee

Now the United States does not need South African iron. For the U.S.A has sufficient. But theUnited States -- as the producer of 45% of all of the wealth in the world -- desperately needs SouthAfrican cobalt, chrome, vanadium, molybdenum, manganese and these other ingredients of steel.The situation is so crucial that American steel kings in Pittsburgh and elsewhere have said thatSouth Africa can survive without the United States but that the U.S. will self-destruct withoutSouth Africa. That seems hard to believe, yet I am assured by American steel producers that this isindeed the case.So very frankly, the choice that confronts the United States on the world scene today is threefold. Itcan either stand by and do nothing -- and watch South Africa slug it out alone against the wholeworld in general and the Soviet Union in particular -- and face the possible ultimate loss of all ofthat cobalt and manganese and steel to the Soviet Union (or at any rate no longer to be supplied toAmerica). If that happens, America will die -- after South Africa has died. That's the first choicethat confronts the United States. The death of America through American inaction to protect and toensure the flow to America of South African minerals!The second thing that can happen, is for the United States to aid and abet a possible Soviet takeoverof Southern Africa -- with the same result. There would then be a permanent shift of economic andindustrial might, permanently and irrecoverably, away from the U.S. to the Soviet Union -- withSouth Africa finally becoming a Soviet satellite. All of these valuable raw materials would then fallinto the hands of the Soviets.A third possibility that would occur to an intelligent American President, would be immediateAmerican war against South Africa -- annexation of South Africa, and forcible incorporation ofSouth Africa into the United States as a fifty-first State. In that way, control of these vital metalswould be ensured to the United States. But, however effective that might seem pragmatically, Ithink it would lead to the universal condemnation of America by the rest of the world and thus becounter-productive.This leaves one with the only other alternative. That is to start reconstructing the excellentrelationship that used to exist between the United States and South Africa -- before LyndonJohnson and more recently, Jimmy Carter and his satellites rocked the boat. They have broughtabout a very tense situation of international relations between the two countries. What is needed isto recognise the sphere-sovereignty of the United States and of South Africa -- and to work towarda policy of good neighbourliness and of borrowing and sharing with one another and promotinginternational trade. For both lands need to work toward an increased Christian presence throughoutthe world.