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Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
Amid all this uncertainty, Nkrumah turned more and more to the support of his Communist friends. Off to Russia went 68 Ghanaian cadets to attend a Moscow military institute, and onto the agenda of Accra's Parliament went an ugly little piece of legislation setting up special courts to mete out death sentences for "offenses against the state...
Kwame Nkrumah now seemed as much a prisoner of his leftist colleagues as he was of his own Pan African dreams. There was only one way out-more bluster. When word trickled into Accra that Washington was pausing to reconsider its offer of the U.S.'s $133 million Volta River loan. His High Dedication fired off a letter to President Kennedy asking for a decision by Oct. 13. But only irigid silence came out of Washington; hastily, Nkrumah got off a second letter. Take your time, wrote Nkrumah reassuringly last week. Somehow, he had found a way to extend...
...courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission to train the country...
Ghana's controlled press, meantime, stepped up its anti-British campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious...