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Readmission to the Commonwealth "club" requires the unanimous consent of all the members. Ghana, India, and the other Afro-Asian members of the "club," however, will almost certainly refuse to allow South Africa to rejoin. Ghana, along with various other countries, is already boycotting South Africa goods in an attempt to get the Nationalists to change their policies and accord rights to the non-Whites. This boycott has not had much effect on the economy of South Africa; the few who have lost their jobs have been non-Whites. But loss of Commonwealth trade preferences would plunge South Africa into...
...South Africa is thrown into the economic wilderness by a refusal of the Afro-Asian states to allow her to remain inside the Common wealth, it would also lose the protection now guaranteed in the defense pacts with Britain and other Commonwealth countries...
...African state did attempt to intervene in South Africa, the White Republic could not expect support from the Western nations, including Britain and the United States, which have already condemned apartheid in official statements and want to retain the friendship of the Afro-Asian states which now hold the balance of power in the United Nations...
...midweek Khrushchev anxiously nursed forward the one Soviet issue that had any hope of winning a favorable U.N. vote: a resolution demanding immediate freedom for all colonies everywhere. One after another, Afro-Asian delegates marched to the podium to promise their votes. Then Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong urged that the resolution be widened to include discussion of "the inalienable right to independence of the peoples of Eastern Europe...
...States and its allies as colonialists. Castro's barrage against the "Yankees" could seriously weakes U.S. control over votes of the 19 Latin American nations. Plank believes Castro may have "considerable success in establishing an alliance between the Latin American nations--once a stronghold of U.S. support--and the Afro-Asian group...