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...Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
...There is a certain madness in Ghana at present," Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa told a press conference last week. "We should not boycott the conference because of Ghana's puerile attitude but rather because it is difficult for the heads of state to meet in Accra, where the undesirable elements of their own countries are harbored by the Ghanaian government...
Credit was due both to Zik, the Easterner and Christian, and to Sir Abubakar, the Moslem from the North, for a level of statesmanship seldom found in nations hardly accustomed to peaceful resolution of such weighty matters...
...Northern Region, the election results would stand, but in the East and West, where a widespread boycott had made voting impossible in many districts, a new election date would soon be set. Meantime, Sir Abubakar would remain as Prime Minister of a "broadly based" federal government. His new Cabinet turned out to be al most exactly the same as the old one-heavily dominated by the North. But, for the time being, most Nigerians were too busy celebrating their escape as a nation to care...