Editing David Stirling (section)

===In Africa===
Stirling was the founder of the [[Capricorn Africa Society]], promoting freedom from racial discrimination in Africa. Founded in 1949, while much of Africa was still under colonial rule, it had its high point at the 1956 conference at [[Salima, Malawi|Salima]], a social event which sought to enable whites "to relate to Africans on the basis of something approximating social equality".<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=llSECgAAQBAJ&pg=PA116   |title=
Manners Make a Nation Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910–1963|first= Allison Kim|last= Shutt |year= 2015|publisher=University of Rochester Press|isbn=978-1580465205}}</ref> However, because of his opposition to universal suffrage, preferring a qualified and very elitist voting franchise, educated Africans were divided on it and it attracted insufficient support. Consequently, the society's attempt to deal with the problem of different levels of social development in a non-racial way was ineffective, although it received surprising validation when the [[South African Communist Party]] used Stirling's multi-racial elitist model for its 1955 "Congress Alliance" with the [[African National Congress]] of South Africa.<ref>Bernard Leeman. ''Mandela, Sobukwe, Leballo and Mokhehle'' (Azania Press 2008), p. 32.</ref> Stirling resigned as Chairman of the Society in 1959.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5FDAQAAIAAJ|title=British Intelligence and Covert Action: Africa, Middle East and Europe Since 1945|first1= Jonathan|last1= Bloch|first2= Patrick |last2=Fitzgerald|year=1983|page=47|publisher=Brandon|isbn=978-0862451134}}</ref>