Word: anti-british
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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...
...military mission to train the country's small (6,000-man) army. Plainly Nkrumah was moving Ghana farther than ever from the Commonwealth, closer than ever to Moscow. He fired his British defense chief, Major General Henry Alexander (one of whose duties had been advising Nkrumah just how anti-British he could get without angering London). His replacement was General Stephen Otu, who considers Russian methods and weapons superior...
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...
...Town Hall chanted "NOW, NOW, NOW," as Spellbinder Kaunda yelled, "FREEDOM, Africa!", and cheered stumpy Hastings Banda (who spent 15 years in the U.S. before the war, studied at the University of Chicago and Nashville's Meharry Medical College) as he proclaimed: "We are not anti-white or anti-British; we are anti-domination...
...federation of the Arab states of Aden's Western Protectorate. But only half a dozen sheiks and emirs and sultans could be prodded or cajoled into joining. The former Sultan of Lahej, most considerable of the petty potentates, turned up in Cairo to make anti-British propaganda. Half his army of 300 men, dragging along their only field piece, had crossed over to Yemen. The rest of the chieftains obviously thought the British were a poor bet for the future...