Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa to the lush rain forests of Southeast Asia, the winds of anti-colonialism blow with gale force, and wherever they blow, there is resentment and suspicion of the U.S. "The U.S.," says an Indonesian, "sides with the Western colonial powers and has not done enough in liberating Afro-Asian countries." Among Tunisians a once unalloyed admiration for the U.S. is giving way to the impatience voiced by President Habib Bourguiba: "Without U.S. financial aid, France could not continue her war of repression in Algeria. In our eyes this makes you an accomplice of France." In Athens a Greek...
...loans rather than gifts is not resented as tightfisted, instead flatters the touchy pride of newly independent nations as businesslike dealing between equals. When they insist that the factories they build must be state property, Russian negotiators are often more in tune with the vaguely socialist ideology of most Afro-Asians than are U.S. aid administrators in their attempts to promote free enterprise. Needing raw materials and food that the underdeveloped countries produce, the Russians can profitably make barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent aim is to achieve a reputation for disinterestedness, their hope that...
...Cairo last week, Indian M.P. Anup Singh took sharp exception to Western criticism of his supreme creation, the week-old Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference (TIME, Jan. 6). "The conference,v insisted Singh, "was neither inspired nor financed by the Communist Party, nor is it deliberately following the Communist line."Then he added brightly: "But you can say that the decisions of theconference are helping the Communists...
...vanished by conference's end. Nasser held a reception for the 500 conference delegates at Cairo's Abdin Palace, granted long private interviews to the heads of Soviet and Red Chinese delegations. The single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations on $29,000 contributed by Egypt. The council's ten-man permanent secretariat, which includes representatives of Russia and Red China, will have an Egyptian secretary-general. When...
...fact, Nasser had with his own hand struck a grievous blow at his prospects of achieving leadership of Afro-Asia's restive peoples. For by giving Egyptian backing to the permanent Afro-Asian Council, he had in effect gone into partnership with Russia in a campaign to undermine Western influence in Africa. And in a partnership between Egypt and Russia, even self-confident Gamal Abdel Nasser could scarcely doubt which partner would call the tune...