Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stevenson called the U.N. "mankind's sole common instrument of politics," and his warning to the Russians was even blunter. "Africa is the Balkans of today," said Stevenson. "Any outside power seeking to manipulate its griefs and searchings and first fumbling efforts to stand alone risks bringing down on Africa and on the world the dread possibility of nuclear destruction." Stevenson then reminded the Russians of a law of history "more profound, more inescapable than the laws dreamed up by Marx and Lenin: war follows when new empires thrust into collapsing ruins of the old. So stay your ambitions...
...million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...