Major Owens: “I would like to appeal to the gentleman from Indiana and other Members of the party of Lincoln to act in the spirit of…”

“I would like to appeal to the gentleman from Indiana and other Members of the party of Lincoln to act in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. We have a situation here unprecedented in the history of the world, where there has been a peaceful transfer of power. South Africa is rich enough to take care of itself. It will do so eventually. We are at a critical transition period, a very explosive situation exists where 36 million people have been denied the fruits of the country are waiting, anticipating. If you do not give them help over this transition period, you are going to help to strike a match that will explode the whole situation. That is a revolution that was made by the white businessmen acting in concert with black revolutionaries. This is a peaceful transition that will go forward and produce a great market for American products, a great market for American business, if it is peaceful, if it is orderly. If it explodes, however, into chaos because they cannot stand the pressures because we did not help with the transition, all would be lost.”