Naught For Your Comfort by Father Trevor Huddleston, 1956, 1st Edition

Naught For Your Comfort by Father Trevor Huddleston, 1956, 1st edition

Published by Hardingham and Donaldson Johannesburg for Collins, St. James's Place London, with frontispice. 256 pages

Hardcover, no dust jacket, black cloth with gold letters.

Good condition, the mesh shows by front and back cover (see images). Previous owner's signature on the inside of the front cover, no other marking inside.

Paper clippings from The Star, Edition of 19 November 1955, with information about the author and a letter he received from Mr Hertzog Biermann, are pasted on the inside of back cover.    

Father Trevor Henderson was an Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the International Defence.
In 1943 Huddleston was sent to the CR mission station in Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Priest-in-Charge of the CRs Anglican Mission in Sophiatown and Orlando, Huddleston ministered in the townships between 1943 and 1956.

With the passing into legislation of the Group Areas Act in 1950, Huddleston, along with Nelson Mandela, Helen Joseph and Ruth First became involved in protests against forced removals in Sophiatown. This, along with his decision to close down St Peters rather than handing it over for government control under the Bantu Education Act, brought him in regular conflict with the authorities.  As a result, in the 13 year period of working in South Africa, Huddleston gained a reputation as a respected priest and an anti-apartheid activist. This earned him the nickname Makhalipile or dauntless one. During this time he developed close friendships with Mandela and Oliver Tambo.

With increasing fears for Father Huddlestons safety, he was recalled to England in December 1955, where he wrote passionately of the human misery that accompanied the force removal programme in Sophiatown. The book, Naught for your Comfort, was published in 1956, making headlines in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.(SA History Online)

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