The South African Treason Trial
One of the undaunted liberal voices in South Africa, ALAN PATON was born of English settlers in Pietermaritzburg on January 11, 1903. His father was a civil servant, his mother a teacher, and after his graduation from the University of Natal, he himself began teaching in a Zulu school. In 1935 Mr. Paton went to Johannesburg to become principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, where he took over the task of re-educating the 650 young African inmates. Out of his wide experience and deep feeling came his profoundly moving novel CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. And the same impulses prompted him to serve as a trustee of the Treason Trial Defence Fund.